Astrophysics and Creation:Percieving the Universe Through Science and Participation

For centuries the dialogue, and often the heated debate, between science and religion was dominated by the question of whether and how God might be experienced through the scientific study of nature. While scientists observe and explore the universe through widening knowledge, believers—awed by its splendor— enter into relationship, becoming participants in this cosmos.

In Astrophysics and Creation, renowned Christian and astrophysicist Arnold Bentz draws on personal experience, as well as biblical theology, to bring science and theology into a dialogue that will alter the way you see life. Bentz insists that human perception reaches further than science and demonstrates this in various examples, personal, biblical, and literary. Engaging stargazers from Isaac Newton and Pierre Simon Laplace to Walt Whitman and Immanuel Kant, along with the Christian gospels, Bentz brings into focus the varying perspectives forming the bases of science and theology and their relationship to one another. Bentz's illuminating argument not only claims that science and religion are reconcilable but also aims to show explicitly how they are compatible.