Notes

  1. . Karl E.Peters, “The Image of God as A Model for Humanization,Zygon  9 (June 1974): 112.
  2. . Ibid., pp. 112–13.
  3. . This point of view has been eloquently argued by Alfred North Whitehead. In Science and the Modern World (New York: Macmillan Co., 1931), p. 19, he writes:…“the faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology.”
  4. . Charles Hartshorne and William L. Reese, Philosophers Speak of God (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1953), pp. 15–25.
  5. . Ibid., p. 351.
  6. . Ibid., pp. 395–408.
  7. . RichardSchlegel, “Quantum Physics and Human Purpose,” Zygon  8 (September-December 1973): 200–20.
  8. . Hugo AdamBedau, “Complementarity and the Relation between Science and Religion,Zygon  9 (September 1974): 202–24; M. D.MacKay, “Complementarity in Scientific and Theological Thinking,”ibid.  , pp. 225–44.
  9. . Werner Heisenberg, The Physicist's Conception of Nature, trans. A. J. Pomerans (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1958), p. 29.
  10. . George A.Riggan, “Epilogue to the Symposium on Science and Human Purpose,Zygon  8(September‐December 1973): 474. I thank Riggan for explicating his views in private correspondence.
  11. . See The Many‐Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, ed. B. S. DeWitt and Neill Graham (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1973). A semipopular account has been given in a paper by B. S. DeWitt, “Quantum Mechanics and Reality,” in ibid.
  12. . William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience (New York: Modern Library, 1902).
  13. . Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality (New York: Macmillan Co., 1929), esp. p. 526: God is “the poet of the world, with tender patience leading it by his vision of truth, beauty, and goodness.”
  14. . I discussed the limits of science in detail in Completeness in Science (New York: Appleton‐Century‐Crofts, 1967).
  15. . Michael Polyani forcefully stated the role of nonconceptual learning even in science See his Personal Knowledge (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1958).