Stephen M. Barr

Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion, and the Appetite for Wonder.By Richard Dawkins.Houghton Mifflin.  337 pp. $26.In reading Richard Dawkins I am reminded of an anecdote told by Werner Heisenberg. Heisenberg and several other great physicists were sitting around one evening talking about . . . . Continue Reading »

Sir John Maddox was for almost a quarter of a century, until 1995, the editor-in-chief of Nature , one of the world’s premier scientific journals. In this ambitious book he attempts nothing less than an overview of what has been discovered about the natural world in the last three centuries, . . . . Continue Reading »

There’s no denying that historically evolution has been harmful to religious faith. It has contributed to undermining confidence in Scripture and to promoting a naturalistic view of man. In our own age, such atheists as Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Jay Gould, and Carl Sagan have . . . . Continue Reading »

The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory by David Chalmers. Oxford University Press, 414 pages, $29.95. Physics cannot explain why an apple looks red. This will surprise some people, but it is a fact that can hardly be disputed. Physics does indeed tell us why an apple reflects red . . . . Continue Reading »

Bible and Science By Stanley L. Jaki Christendom Press, 222 pages, $9.95 In this book Father Jaki discusses with much learning, insight, and wisdom the complex relationship between biblical religion and science. In the first chapters he gives an illuminating analysis of the Bible’s view of the . . . . Continue Reading »

Science and Religion: From Conflict to Conversation By John F. Haught Paulist Press, 225 pages Religion does not have an enemy in science, but it does in pseudo-scientific philosophy that goes by the name of “scientific materialism.” This philosophy gives a powerful, coherent, . . . . Continue Reading »

The Fire in the Equations: Science, Religion, and the Search for God By Kitty Ferguson Eerrdmans, 308 pages, $25 There has been a recent proliferation of books on science and religion, and this one is among the most absorbing and vivacious. Kitty Ferguson has a gift for explaining abstruse . . . . Continue Reading »

Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of ConsciousnessBy Roger Penrose Oxford University Press, 457 pages, $25 Roger Penrose, the Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at Oxford, has gone a long way toward burying materialism, which is remarkable since Penrose is apparently a . . . . Continue Reading »