Includes bibliographical references and index

"Science & Religion Initiative, McGrath Inistitute for Church Life, University of Notre Dame ; Funded by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation." --(title page)

Part 1: Seeing the whole: natural science and supernatural faith. Faith and science at the crossroads of the human spitit -- Science and the Christian faith: understanding and correcting models of conflict - The Christian doctrine of creation: a wisdom wider than science -- First creation account and modern science: uniting perspectives -- Patroness or persecutor? sacred tradition and scientific discovery -- Evil, prayer, and miracles: questions for God in the light of modern science. Part II: The mind of the maker: physics, biology, and human origins. The twist in the tale : modern science versus scientific atheism -- Going "deeper than Darwin" : God and biological evolution -- Emergence of the image: God and the sciences of human origins -- Part 3: In His image: human personhood, human history, and modern science. In His image: the human person from the divine perspective -- Human sin and modern science: the tragic history of the image of God -- From evolution to resurrection: Jesus Christ, the true origin of humanity -- Appendix: More Catholic scientists throughout the ages