Includes bibliographical references and index

Part I. Historical episodes. -- Early Christian belief in creation and the beliefs sustaining the modern scientific endeavor / Christopher B. Kaiser -- The Copernican revolution and the Galileo affair / Maurice A. Finocchiaro -- Women, mechanical science, and God in the early modern period / Jacqueline Broad -- Christian responses to Darwinism in the late nineteenth century / Peter J. Bowler -- Science falsely so called : fundamentalism and science / Edward B. Davis -- Part II. Methodology. -- How to relate Christian faith and science / Mikael Stenmark -- Authority / Nicholas Rescher -- Feminist philosophies of science : towards a prophetic epistemology / Lisa L. Stenmark -- Practical objectivity : keeping natural science natural / Alan G. Padgett -- The evolutionary argument against naturalism / Alvin Plantinga -- Part III. Natural theology. -- Arguments to God from the observable universe / Richard Swinburne -- "God of the gaps" arguments / Gregory E. Ganssle -- Natural theology after modernism / J.B. Stump -- Religious epistemology personified : God without natural theology / Paul K. Moser -- Problems for Christian natural theology / Alexander R. Pruss and Richard M. Gale -- Part IV. Cosmology and physics. -- Modern cosmology and Christian theology / Stephen M. Barr -- Does the universe need God? / Sean Carroll -- Does God love the multiverse? / Don N. Page -- The fine-tuning of the cosmos : a fresh look at its implications / Robin Collins -- Quantum theory and theology / Rodney D. Holder -- Part V. Evolution. -- Creation and evolution / Denis R. Alexander -- Darwinism and atheism : a marriage made in heaven? / Michael Ruse --