Galileo, Darwin, and Hawking: The Interplay of Science, Reason, and Religion
Phil Dowe
Grand Rapids, Mich. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2005.
205 pages. $21 paperback.

Sixteen hundred years ago, Augustine decided that the best model for the science-and-religion interplay was one of interaction and in Galileo, Darwin, and Hawking, philosopher of science and religion Phil Dowe argues that pattern continues today.

In his praiseworthy book, Dowe offers up four views of the science-and-religion relationship: naturalism, religious science, independence and interactivity. The first two brand the relationship as uncomplimentary, the third as unrelated, and the latter