The penultimate curiosity : how science swims in the slipstream of ultimate questions

The penultimate curiosity : how science swims in the slipstream of ultimate questions / Roger Wagner, artist and writer and Andrew Briggs, professor of nanomaterials, University of Oxford, UK.

What lies at the root of the long entanglement between science and religion? The curiosity that leads to the search for religious understanding and the curiosity that leads to the search for scientific understanding have common origins in aspects of the human mind that go back as far as the earliest...

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Main Authors: Wagner, Roger (Author), Briggs, Andrew (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Religion and science.
Curiosity.
RELIGION > General.
Curiosity
Religion and science
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Summary:What lies at the root of the long entanglement between science and religion? The curiosity that leads to the search for religious understanding and the curiosity that leads to the search for scientific understanding have common origins in aspects of the human mind that go back as far as the earliest records of human intellectual endeavour. Their relationship developed as the categories of religion and science became distinct and new information was discovered. The struggle to make sense of the world as a whole seems to be an urgent and fundamental requirement in all human societies - an ultimate curiosity that creates a slipstream of interest in which penultimate curiosities about particular aspects of the physical world have (to a greater or lesser extent) been able to swim.
Physical Description:1 online resource : illustrations (some color)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780191065149
0191065145
0198747950
9780198747956
9780191810909
0191810908
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