Stratton's Controversies In Relation To Science And Religion

The author introduces a preface about issues and controversies in relation to science and religion, some aspects and characteristics about them, and also, he shows the goals for this chapter. Through his introduction, he manifests that the relation between religion and science are two great cultural forces that build and organize every aspect of human life. In addition, he affirms that this chapter will help us to think systematically, and intelligently about the relationship between these two great cultural forces, but also, we will not solve them because the issues involved in them are many and convoluted. In fact, Stratton says that the philosophical commitments inserted into science establish a lot of unnecessary controversies of religion and …show more content…
These 4 ways are very important to those who seek any links between the two forces, but sometimes are distorting and are not useful. He manifests good explanation based on good arguments, and philosophical doctrines through these 4 ways, making the reader understand the worldviews between science and religious tradition. Later, Brian clean up a little bit more of his writing when he mention that the closest thing in relation to these 2 forces is direct relevance and comes in 2 forms. After that, he links the methodology, heuristic, and metaphysic 3 forms of indirect relevance, and analyzed them one by one. After those sections, he starts introducing the second part with an analysis about the importance of science for religious tradition, saying that there are four reasons theologian should see, first they need to develop an comprehension of the natural world as God's creation, second is to watch science as relevant to theology, third check the points of interaction between science and theology, and the last says see science as relevant to theology as defense of religious