Integrating Science with Religion

To make a long story short, "Experimenting with Truth" is a somewhat overwritten but wholly courageous book about God, science, and technology. It is written by a committed, avant-garde Christian, who only occasionally mentions Jesus and only obliquely defines his personal relationship to the Christ. Not that such matters are usually anyone's business. In this book, however, they are, since its author, Rustum Roy, director of the Pennsylvania State University Materials Research Laboratory, is trying to attract his scientific colleagues to a richer, more responsible sense of the Beyond "in the light of modern scientific thought." He believes science can help religion integrate its intuitional insights concerning life's meaning with the evolving facts of the physical world. And he believes religion can help scientists relate their work to humanizing, civilizing, and spiritualizing the world. He uses his book's 200 pages to explain why and how. Roy believes the modern separation of science from religion is ...