This third volume of Facets of Faith and Science presents case studies covering astronomy biology cosmology and physics. Chapters Include: The Role of Beliefs in Modern Cosmology; Rationalism Voluntarism and Seventeeth Century Science; Newton''s Rejection of the Newtonian World View: The Role of Divine Will in Newton''s Natural Philosophy; Astronomy for the People: R. A. Proctor and the Popularization of the Victorian Universe; Physical Laws as Knowledge and Belief; On the Complexity of the Relationship between Astronomy and Religion: Jesuit Missionary-Astronomers in the Sixteenth and Seventeeth Centuries; Astral Piety Astronomy and Ethics in the Ancient Mediterranean; The Shroud of Turin: Resetting the Carbon-14 Clock; Newton and Christianity; Mind and Brain Science and Religion: Comparing of the Work of Donald M. McKay and Roger W. Sperry; The Role of Theology in Current Evolutionary Reasoning; The Concept of the ''Open System'': Another Machine Metaphor for the Organism?; The Concept of Hierarchy in Contemporary Systems Thinking: A Key to Overcoming Reductionism?; Control Hierarchies: A View of Life. Language: English