SCIENCE AND RELIGION:
Two Realms and Their Relationships
A review by Craig B. Anderson
Rocks of Ages Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life
Stephen Jay Gould
Library of Contemporary Thought (Ballantine), New York, 1999. 250 pp. $18.95, C$26.50. ISBN 0-345-43009-3.
Seduced by Science How American Religion Has Lost Its Way
Steven Goldberg
New York University Press, New York, 1999. 230 pp. $27.95. ISBN 0-8147-3104-X.
The Sacred Depths of Nature
Ursula Goodenough
Oxford University Press, New York, 1998. 219 pp. $24. ISBN 0-19-512613-6.
Three divergent perspectives on the relationship between science and religion. Gould argues that their domains are separate and non-overlapping. Goldberg highlights the disadvantages that have followed from religions speaking in the language of science. And Goodenough prefers a religious naturalism; she holds that an understanding of life can generate religious feelings in the absence of organized faiths.
The author, currently president of the National Council of Churches, is at St. Paul's School, Concord, NH 03301-2591, USA. E-mail: anderson{at}sps.edu
