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Ted Davis
Ted Davis is Fellow of the History of Science for the BioLogos Foundation and Professor of the History of Science at Messiah College. At Messiah, Davis teaches courses on historical and contemporary aspects of Christianity and science and directs the Central Pennsylvania Forum for Religion and Science.
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7 Part Series: Searching for Motivated Belief
Over the next few months, with permission from Yale University Press, BioLogos will offer edited versions of chapters from John Polkinghorne's best books, Belief in God in an Age of Science and Theology in the Context of Science, in order to help readers delve more deeply into some of his most important ideas.
1 Part Series: Science and the Bible: Wrapping It Up
Ted Davis concludes his lengthy Science and the Bible series with some parting words about Christianity and it's relationship with science.
5 Part Series: Science and the Bible: Intelligent Design
In this series, Ted Davis identifies the history, core tenets and assumptions about the Intelligent Design view.
5 Part Series: Science and the Bible: Theistic Evolution
In this series, Ted Davis identifies the history, core tenets and assumptions about the theistic evolution view.
4 Part Series: Science and the Bible: Concordism
In this series, Davis identifies core tenets or assumptions about the view of concordism, beginning with propositions about the Bible before concluding with a short historical commentary.
2 Part Series: Science and the Bible: Scientific Creationism
In this series, Davis identifies core tenets or assumptions about the view of scientific creationism, beginning with propositions about the Bible before concluding with a short historical commentary.
2 Part Series: Science and the Bible: Galileo and the Garden of Eden
Davis examines what one of Galileo's contemporaries, Cardinal Bellarmine, said about earth’s motion and the Bible. Davis also looks briefly at how creationists today accept Galileo’s use of accommodation for biblical passages about astronomy, but reject such an approach to the early chapters of Genesis.
3 Part Series: Science and the Bible: Five Approaches
This ongoing series written by historian Ted Davis begins with a brief synopsis of his personal background, and then goes on to reveal his passion for debunking “the now-common view that the history of science and Christianity is one of ongoing, inevitable conflict.”
3 Part Series: Christianity and Science in Historical Perspective
In this series, Ted Davis reflects on the interaction of science and Christianity during the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, a time when foundations for modern science were quickly developing. He dismisses the idea that the influential areas of theology and science hold opposing views about the world and also explains how the Church enthusiastically supported and encouraged the growth of the various scientific disciplines, especially during the pre-Copernican time. He goes on to elaborate on the Copernican and Galileo controversies as well as highlight the faith of well-known scientists such as Kepler, Boyle, and Polkinghorne.
2 Part Series: Top-List Survey with Ted Davis
This short series by Ted Davis responds to two questions. They seek to know which books have persuaded his thoughts in the science, philosophy and religion interface. In the first blog, the American Scientific Affiliation as well as several books, especially The Post- Darwinian Controversies, are identified as significant to his ideas and career choice early on. The second blog offers a short summary of works and authors that currently influence his work.
An Obituary for the “Warfare” View of Science and Religion
As an historian of science, I belong to a small, somewhat esoteric club. But our collective anonymity may now be changing with the publication of a splendid new book from Harvard University Press, Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion.