A Quaker Astronomer Reflects : Can a Scientist Also Be Religious?

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Publisher: Backhouse lecture committee

ISBN: 9780646592398

Author	Jocelyn Bell Burnell

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World renown astronomer and Quaker Jocelyn Bell Burnell reflects on the big issues confronting scientists who also have a strong spiritual belief system. How can the principles of science be reconciled with the faith required by religion? Does scientific investigation call into question the givens of religion. While specific to her Quaker beliefs, Burnell's reflections apply to many other religions as well. This is the 2013 James Backhouse Lecture Series, sponsored by the Society of Friends (Quakers( in Australia.