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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French philosopher, Jesuit priest, and paleontologist
anthropic principle
philosophical consideration that observations of the Universe must be compatible with the conscious and sapient life that observes it
scientism
Scientism is the belief that science and the scientific method are the best or only way to render truth about the world and reality.
conversion therapy
pseudoscientific or religious attempt to change sexual orientation or gender identity
demarcation problem
about how to distinguish between science and nonscience, including between science, pseudoscience, and other products of human activity, like art and literature, and beliefs
relationship between religion and science
overview of interactions
natural theology
type of theology providing arguments for the existence of God based on reason and ordinary experience of nature (as opposed to revealed theology, based on scripture and/or religious experience, or transcendental theology, based on a priori reasoning)
God of the gaps
Theological argument
Jack Parsons
American rocket engineer (1914–1952)
Law of three stages
idea developed by Auguste Comte
Omega Point
spiritual belief and a scientific speculation that everything in the universe is fated to spiral towards a final point of divine unification
neurotheology
Study of correlations of neural phenomena with subjective experiences of spirituality and hypotheses to explain these phenomena
religious views of Albert Einstein
process philosophy
philosophical theory
Whig history
Historiographical school of thought
process theology
type of theology developed from Alfred North Whitehead
politicization of science
use of science for political purposes
John Templeton Foundation
philanthropic organization
Jehovah's Witnesses and blood transfusions
Jehovah's Witnesses doctrinal position about use of blood
Merton Thesis
an argument about the positive correlation between the rise of Protestant Pietism and early experimental science
non-overlapping magisteria
view that science and religion have separate, non-overlapping domains of validity
X Club
Dei Filius
dogmatic constitution of the First Vatican Council on the Catholic faith
Steve Fuller
British-American sociologist
God gene
hypothesis proposes that human spirituality is influenced by heredity
cognitive science of religion
the study of religious thought and behavior from the perspective of the cognitive and evolutionary sciences
faith and rationality
two ideologies that exist in varying degrees of conflict or compatibility
efficacy of prayer
question which has been addressed in various religious traditions and in scientific studies
religious interpretations of the Big Bang theory
religiosity and intelligence
link between religiosity and level of intelligence
Conflict thesis
concept in history of science
list of Christian thinkers in science
Wikimedia list article
potential cultural impact of extraterrestrial contact
changes resulting from contact with an extraterrestrial civilization
fact–value distinction
epistemological distinction between statements of fact (positive, descriptive) based on reason and physical observation and statements of value (normative, prescriptive) about ethics and aesthetics, studied via axiology
Baháʼí views on science
Yale Divinity School
Theological Graduate School of Yale University
Book of Nature
religious and philosophical concept
Continuity thesis
the thesis that there was no radical discontinuity between the intellectual development of the Middle Ages and the developments in the Renaissance and early modern period
Mystical experience
experience interpreted within a religious framework