I just ran across this and thought it might be of interest: SKEPTICAL INQUIRER JULY/AUGUST 1999 PREVIEW SCIENCE AND RELIGION: CONFLICT OR CONCILIATION? Featuring Stephen Jay Gould, Steve Allen, Martin Gardner, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Pinker, Paul Kurtz, Ernst Mayr, Chet Raymo, and others The special expanded issue of the July/August Skeptical Inquirer, The Magazine for Science and Reason presents ten invited original articles, three book excerpts, two columns, and several miscellaneous short features on a single broad topic: "Science and Religion: Conflict or Conciliation?" It is due on newsstands and to subscribers by June 28. As Kendrick Frazier writes in the editor's note, "The authors are distinguished scientists, scholars, educators, and writers. All speak from a commitment to science and scientific skepticism, but they offer an impressively wide spectrum of viewpoints. There is no 'religion bashing' here. There is steadfast defense of science. There are attempts to define and observe clear-cut boundaries, and also pleas to observe each other's domains with mutual respect. We strived for thoughtful, informed, forthright considerations of the issues that confront scientists, scholars, teachers, skeptics, religious leaders, and the general public in dealing with often troublesome issues along the borderlands of science and religion." SPECIAL ISSUE Science and Religion: Conflict or Conciliation? Introduction: Conflicting or Contradictory? Some Introductory Thoughts About Boundaries Kendrick Frazier, Editor ARTICLES Celebrating Creation Chet Raymo, science writer Author of "True Believers: The Exhilarating Connection Between Science and Religion" Should Skeptical Inquiry Be Applied to Religion? Paul Kurtz, CSICOP founding Chair Professor Emeritus, State University of New York at Buffalo The Science and Religion Movement: An Opportunity for Improved Public Understanding of Science? Eugenie Scott, Executive Director, National Center for Science Education Science and the Versus of Religion Barry A. Palevitz, Professor of Botany, University of Georgia, Athens Science Versus Religion: Teach the Difference, Resolve the Conflict Zoran Pazemeta, Professor of the Physical Sciences, Eastern Connecticut State Univ. Anthropic Design: Does the Cosmos Show Evidence of Purpose? Victor Stenger, Professor of Physics, University of Hawaii CSICOP, the Local Groups, and Scientific Skepticism Steven Novella and David Bloomberg Two Mind-Sets Steve Allen, Author/Entertainer God is Dead, After Weather and Sports Mike Reiss, Producer, The Simpsons READINGS IN SCIENCE AND RELIGION Whence Religious Belief? Steven Pinker Non-Overlapping Magisteria Stephen Jay Gould You Can't Have it Both Ways: Irreconcilable Differences? Richard Dawkins The Concerns of Science Ernst Mayr COLUMN Notes of a Fringe Watcher: The Religious Views of Stephen Jay Gould and Charles Darwin Martin Gardner *********************************************************** Dr. Thomas A. Timmerman Department of Psychology Austin Peay State University Clarksville, TN 37044 931-572-1248 ***********************************************************
