In a series of related essays, Dr Parkinson argues that both science and religion are at a crossroads, because in both cases their current paradigms are breaking down. In science, Einstein's General Relativity has left an unbridgeable gap between quantum physics and the new cosmology and, in the West, the gap between the story told by modern scholarship and "gospel truth" has become equally wide. What for two millennia has been considered to be historical fact is now seen often to be not only pious myth but deliberate falsification. The author adds something new and positive - but controversial- to the debate, in arguing that a future science and religion must be symbiotic. That is to say, in being true to their most basic principles of truth-seeking, both will find themselves to be not merely harmonious but mutually supporting and illuminating. When the evidence for this is fully, and honestly, assessed, the "phoney war" between science and religion can be seen for what it is. The question under all the questions is this: if simple honesty is an essential part of both science and religion, can either continue to survive with what J. K. Galbraith called "institutional truth?"

Author Biography

Now retired, Frank Parkinson studied engineering, but switched career and has taught linguistics and philosophy at Lancaster University and in Austria, Canada and Guyana. His chosen field is in evolutionary philosophy, and he is deeply committed to a theology based on the new creation story of science that will enable the religious divisions arising from ancient myths to be transcended, thus paving the way for a truly global family. He is the author of numerous article and of the book "Jehovah and Hyperspace: Exploring the Future of Science, Religion and Society" (2002).