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Modern and Contemporary Scientists

Charles R. Darwin (1809-1882), My Religious Belief

[from The Autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882, edited by his grand-daughter Nora Barlow]]

 

Charles R. Darwin (1809-1882), The Role of a Creator according to the 1844 Sketch and to the conclusions of The Origin of Species (1859 and 1860)

 

Charles R. Darwin on God’s Existence and the Theory of Evolution

[a selection from Darwin’s Correspondence]

 

James Clerk Maxwell, Paradoxical Philosophy. A book review (1878)

[from Nature, Vol. XIX, in J.C. Maxwell’s Scientific Papers, New York 1965]

 

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955), Science and Christ

[from a lecture given in Paris, 1921]

 

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955), The Divinization of Human Activities

[from The Divine Milieu, 1927]

 

Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900-1975), Humanism and Humanity

[from Biology of Ultimate Concern , 1967]

 

W. Heinsenberg (1901-1976), Science and Religion (1927)

[from Physics and Beyond, 1971]

 

Lucien Morren (1906-2006) Reflections On The Mission Of A Catholic Scientist

[from a Lecture given at Grottaferrata ( Italy ), in 1972]

 

Wernher von Braun (1912-1977), Design and Designer: What Science Can Actually Proves

[from a letter to Mr. Grose, September 14, 1972]

 

Enrico Fermi, An Umbrian Farmer and the Religious Experience of a Starry Sky

[from M. Micheli, “Enrico Fermi e Luigi Fantappié. Ricordi personali,”, 1979]

 

Michael Heller, The Program for the Theology of Science

[from The New Physics and a New Theology, 1996]

 

Allan Sandage (b. 1926) reflects on Religious Belief

[interview given in 1997]

 

Peter Dodson, God and the Dinosaurs

[from American Paleontologist 5, 1997]

 

Paul Davies (b. 1946), Science and Religion in the 21st Century (2000)

 

Charles H. Townes (b. 1915), Our Special Universe

[from The Wall Street Journal, March 11, 2005]

 

Richard Dawkins and Francs Collins interviewed by Dan Cray, God vs. Science (2006)

[from Time International, November 5, 2006]

 

Stephen M. Barr, The Miracle of Evolution

[from First Things, 2006]

 

Brian Greene, Put a little science in your life (2008)

[from International Herald Tribune, June 2, 2008]

 

Francis Collins (b. 1950), The Scientist as Believer

[interview by John Horgan, National Geographical Magazine, February 2009]

 

 

Interdisciplinary Documentation on Religion and Science 2003 - 2008
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