Religion and Science in the Academy

William Schweiker, professor of theological ethics at the University of Chicago, has contributed a thoughtful essay to Michael Marty's Sightings series regarding British philosopher Anthony Flew's apparent conversion from outspoken atheist to (theoretical) theist, noting its likely impact on "the cottage industry of religion and science."  Eric Weislogel of the Metanexus Institute has taken issue with Schweiker's language, responding with a powerful portrayal of the religion-and-science dialogue as a movement "attempting to mitigate the deleterious effects of our 'analytic obsession' in our pursuit of knowledge. While respecting the power and success of our methodology of breaking all of reality into smaller and smaller bits in order better to know it, the religion-and-science dialogue is attempting to provide a complementary mechanism for synthesis in thought and understanding."

Rob