TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pollack,Robert
TI  - The faith of biology and the biology of faith: order, meaning, and free will in modern medical science
T2  - Columbia Series on Religion and Politics
SN  - 9780231529051 (electronic bk.)
AV  - BM538.S3 P65 2013 
U1  - 201.65296.3/75296.375 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Free will and determinism
KW  - Genetics -- Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Judaism and science
KW  - Meaning (Philosophy) -- Religious aspects
KW  - Natural selection
KW  - RELIGION / Religion & Science
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Meaning (Philosophy)
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Genetics
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Series Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface to the 2013 Paperback Edition; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Order Versus Meaning: Science and Religion; Chapter 2. The Meaning Is in the Order: DNA-Based Medicine; Chapter 3. Meaning Beyond Order: The Science of One Life at a Time; Postscript; Bibliography; Index
N2  - Are there parallels between the ""moment of insight"" in science and the emergence of the ""unknowable"" in religious faith? Where does scientific insight come from? Award-winning biologist Robert Pollack argues that an alliance between religious faith and science is not necessarily an argument in favor of irrationality: the two can inform each other's visions of the world.Pollack begins by reflecting on the large questions of meaning and purpose?and the difficulty of finding either in the orderly world described by the data of science. He considers the obligation to find meaning
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