{"product_id":"private-doubt-public-dilemma-keith-stewart-thomson-9780300203677","title":"Private Doubt, Public Dilemma: Religion and Science Since Jefferson and Darwin","description":"\u003cb\u003eA distinguished scholar urges scientists and religious thinkers to become colleagues rather than adversaries in areas where their fields overlap\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Refreshingly modest and nondogmatic. . . . Brims with lively anecdotes.\"--John Horgan, \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Each age has its own crisis--our modern experience of science-religion conflict is not so very different from that experienced by our forebears, Keith Thomson proposes in this thoughtful book. He considers the ideas and writings of Thomas Jefferson and Charles Darwin, two men who struggled mightily to reconcile their religion and their science, then looks to more recent times when scientific challenges to religion (evolutionary theory, for example) have given rise to powerful political responses from religious believers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Today as in the eighteenth century, there are pressing reasons for members on each side of the religion-science debates to find common ground, Thomson contends. No precedent exists for shaping a response to issues like cloning or stem cell research, unheard of fifty years ago, and thus the opportunity arises for all sides to cooperate in creating a new ethics for the common good.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Keith Stewart Thomson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300203675\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300203677\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/26\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.70w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/20\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2015","brand":"Keith Stewart Thomson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47930649313535,"sku":"9780300203677","price":63.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fb54eb4d-9f7a-4484-972f-8ebdc7999251.jpg?v=1766343306","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/private-doubt-public-dilemma-keith-stewart-thomson-9780300203677","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}