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Space and physics: Articles

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  • “Early Modern Space Travel and the English Man in the Moon” by David Cressy. American Historical Review. Vol. 111, No. 4 (2006): 960-82.
  • “Science and Religion, 400 B.C.-A.D. 1550: From Aristotle to Copernicus” by Margaret J. Osler. Journal for the History of Astronomy. Vol. 37, No. 4 (2006): 486-7.
  • “Faith and Quantum Theory” by Stephen M. Barr. First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion & Public Life. Vol. 171 (2007): 21-5.
  • “Space, Time, and Causality” by John Polkinghorne. Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science. Vol. 41, No. 4 (2006): 975-84.
  • “From Ether Theory to Ether Theology: Oliver Lodge and the Physics of Immortality” by Courtenay Grean Raia. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. Vol. 43, No. 1 (2007): 18-43.
  • “Presidents, Experts, and Asteroids” by Sir Arthur Clarke. Science, a publication of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Vol. 280, June 5, 1998.
  • “A look at religion through science: Symposium on Buddhism explores how modern-day believers are affected by scientific developments” by Liaw Wy-Cin. The Straits Times (Singapore). July 19, 2008.
  • “Modern Physics and the Jain Darshan” by Narendra Bhandari. Earth Science & Solar System,PRL, Ahemedabad  (2001).
  • “A Free-for-All on Science and Religion” by George Johnson. The New York Times, Nov. 21, 2006.
  • “Astronomy, space exploration have nun flying” by Susan Braunheim. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, October 2008.
  • “Astronomy and religion (1780-1915). Four case studies involving ideas of extraterrestrial life” by Michael J. Crowe. Osiris. Vol. 16 (2001): 209 – 226.
  • “Taking Science on Faith” by Paul Davies. The New York Times, Nov. 24, 2007.
  • “Hadrons and Humanity.” The Times (London), Sept. 8, 2008.
  • “The Galileo Affair: Emblematic or Exceptional?” by Matt J. Rossano. Huffington Post. Aug. 23, 2011.
  • Barr, Stephen M. “Faith and Quantum Theory.” First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion & Public Life. 171 (2007): 21-5.
  • Osler, Margaret J. “Science and Religion, 400 B.C.-A.D. 1500: From Aristotle to Copernicus.” Journal for the History of Astronomy. Vol. 37, No. 4 (2006): 486-7.
  • Polkinghorne, John. “Space, Time, and Causality.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science. Vol. 41, No. 4 (2006): 975-84.
  • Raia, Courtenay Grean. “From Ether Theory to Ether Theology: Oliver Lodge and the Physics of Immortality.” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. Vol. 43, No. 1 (2007): 18-43.