Suggested Readings and Videos

The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science, edited by Philip Clayton. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Representative pieces from various religious traditions.

Francis Collins

• The Language of God. HarperCollins, 2007.

• Francis Collins, “The Language of God: A Believer Looks at the Human Genome.” The Center for the Study of Science and Religion. Columbia University. February 28, 2008. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=- 2892824917105318461&ei=55vqSPy_GZjUqAOqg-GZCw&q=francis+collins+religion

• Francis Collins, "The Language of God: Intellectual Reflections of a Christian Geneticist" February 4, 2008, The Veritas Forum, University of California, Berkeley. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1022950824632361942&ei=55vqSPy_GZjUqA Oqg-GZCw&q=francis+collins+religion&vt=lf

“Does science make belief in religion obsolete?” A Templeton Conversation. http://www.templeton.org/belief/

• Yes, if by… Steven Pinker, the Johnstone Family Professor in the department of psychology at Harvard University • No, and Yes. Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, O.P., a Dominican friar, the Archbishop of Vienna, Austria • Absolutely not! William D. Phillips, a Nobel Laureate in physics, is a fellow of the Joint Quantum Institute of the University of Maryland and the National Institute of Standards and Technology • Not necessarily. Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy, chairman of the department of physics at Quaid-e- Azam University in Islamabad, Pakistan, and is the author of Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality. • No. Robert Sapolsky, John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor of Biological Sciences and professor of neurology and neurological sciences at Stanford University • No, but it should. Christopher Hitchens, the author of God Is Not Great and the editor of The Portable Atheist. • No. Keith Ward. a Fellow of the British Academy, an ordained priest in the Church of England, a Canon of Christ Church, Oxford • Yes. Jerome Groopman is the Recanati Professor of Medicine at Harvard and author of How Doctors Think • It depends. Michael Shermer, the publisher of Skeptic magazine (www.skeptic.com), a monthly columnist for Scientific American (www.michaelshermer.com), and a professor at Claremont Graduate University • Of course not. Kenneth R. Miller, professor of biology at Brown University and the author of Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground between God and Evolution • No, but only if…Stuart Kauffman, the director of the Institute for Biocomplexity and Informatics at the University of Calgary.

“The Four Horsemen.” A conversation among Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Daniel Dennett about religion and science. • http://richarddawkins.net/article,2025,THE-FOUR-HORSEMEN,Discussions-With-Richard- Dawkins-Episode-1-RDFRS

Sam Harris

• The End of Faith. 2004. • Letter to a Christian Nation. 2006. • http://www.samharris.org/

Richard Dawkins • The God Delusion. 2006. • http://richarddawkins.net/

Christopher Hitchens • God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. 2007. • http://www.hitchensweb.com/

Daniel Dennett • Breaking the Spell. 2006. • http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/incbios/dennettd/dennettd.htm

Beyond Belief conferences (Salk Institute) • Beyond Belief 2006: Science, Religion, Reason and Survival o http://thesciencenetwork.org/BeyondBelief/ • Beyond Belief 2: Enlightenment 2.0 o http://thesciencenetwork.org/BeyondBelief2/

Also see: • Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Christianity and Evolution Translated by Rene Hague. Orlando, Florida: Harvest/HBJ Books, 2002.

• ______, The Phenomenon of Man. Introduction by Sir Julian Huxley. Translated by Bernard Wall. New York: HarperCollins, 2008.

• Ian Barbour, Religion and Science. New York: HarperCollins, 1997.