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词条 Denis Alexander
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  1. Scientific work

  2. Science and religion

  3. Bibliography

  4. References

  5. External links

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Denis Alexander (born 1945) is the Emeritus Director of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion at St Edmund's College, Cambridge, a molecular biologist and an author on science and religion.[1] He is also an editor of Science and Christian Belief.[2] He is an evangelical Christian.[3]{{better source|date=August 2018}}

Scientific work

Alexander was an Open Scholar at Oxford, where he studied Biochemistry. He studied for a PhD in Neurochemistry at the Institute of Psychiatry.[1]

He spent 15 years in various university departments and laboratories outside the United Kingdom, establishing the National Unit of Human Genetics while an Associate Professor of Biochemistry American University of Beirut, Lebanon.[1]

He worked at the Imperial Cancer Research Laboratories in London and subsequently headed the Molecular Immunology Programme and the Laboratory of Lymphocyte Signalling and Development at the Babraham Institute, Cambridge.[1]

Science and religion

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Alexander has written on the subject of religion and science since at least 1972, when his book 'Beyond Science' was reviewed by Hugh Montefiore, then Bishop of Kingston upon Thames in the New Scientist, in which Montefiore noted that Alexander never came out in that book explicitly in support of evolution.[7]

Alexander has stated that he believes "that the Bible is the inspired Word of God from cover to cover"[4] and that this position is consistent with his support for evolution. Alexander is a critic of intelligent design, arguing that is not science and should not be taught as such.[5] He gives an overview of his position in his article, "Creation and Evolution" in The Blackwell Companion to Science and Christianity.

Alexander responded to Stephen Hawking's The Grand Design by stating that "the 'god' that Stephen Hawking is trying to debunk is not the creator God of the Abrahamic faiths who really is the ultimate explanation for why there is something rather than nothing", adding that "Hawking's god is a god-of-the-gaps used to plug present gaps in our scientific knowledge." "Science provides us with a wonderful narrative as to how [existence] may happen, but theology addresses the meaning of the narrative".[6]

Alexander has been quoted in such books as Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life by biochemist and theologian Alister McGrath.[7] He also makes an appearance in the documentary film The Trouble with Atheism, where he discusses his views on science and religion.[8]

Bibliography

  • Beyond Science (1972), Lion Publishing[9]
  • Rebuilding the Matrix – Science and Faith in the 21st Century (2001), Lion Publishing, Oxford, UK, {{ISBN|978-0-7459-1244-8}}.
  • Protein phosphatases – Topics in Current Genetics 5 (2003), Springer, {{ISBN|978-3-540-20560-9}} – Joaquin Arino and Denis Alexander (editors)
  • Beyond Belief: Science, Faith and Ethical Challenges with Bob White (2004), Lion Publishing, Oxford, UK, {{ISBN|978-0-7459-5141-6}}.
  • Can We Be Sure About Anything?: Science, Faith and Postmodernism (2005), Apollos, Nottingham, UK, {{ISBN|978-1-84474-076-5}}.
  • Science, Faith, and Ethics: Grid or Gridlock (2006), Denis Alexander & Robert S. White, Hendrickson, {{ISBN|978-1-59856-018-3}}
  • Creation and Evolution: Do We Have to Choose? (2008), Monarch, Oxford, UK, {{ISBN|978-1-85424-746-9}}.
  • Rescuing Darwin – God and Evolution in Britain Today (2009), Theos Nick Spencer and Denis Alexander {{ISBN|978-0-9554453-5-4}}
  • Biology and Ideology from Descartes to Dawkins (2010), University of Chicago Press, {{ISBN|978-0-226-60841-9}} – Denis R. Alexander and Ronald L. Numbers (editors)
  • The Language of Genetics – an Introduction (2011), Templeton Foundation Press[10]
  • Creation and Evolution: Do We Have to Choose? (2nd edition, revised and expanded) (2014), Monarch, Oxford, UK, {{ISBN|978-0857215789}}.
  • Genes, Determinism, and God (2017), Cambridge University Press, {{ISBN|978-1316506387}}.

References

1. ^1 2 3 Dr Denis Alexander {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070703005627/http://www.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/faraday/Biography.php?ID=9 |date=3 July 2007 }}, Faraday Institute for Science and Religion.
2. ^Bowder, Bill, "Cambridge science don ticks off the teen rebels," Church Times, 7 March 2008, accessed 3 November 2009
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.e-n.org.uk/p-54-Why-some-evangelicals-believe-in-evolution-%28Bulldog-for-October%29.htm |title=Why some evangelicals believe in evolution (Bulldog for October) | Denis Alexander |publisher=E-n.org.uk |date= |accessdate=12 December 2010}}
4. ^Creation or Evolution: Do We Have to Choose? p. 11
5. ^{{cite news|author=Logged in as click here to log out |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2009/dec/03/intelligent-design-creation-christian |title=Intelligent design is not science | Denis Alexander | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk |publisher=Guardian |date= 3 December 2009|accessdate=12 December 2010 |location=London}}
6. ^{{cite news|author=Richard Allen Greene, CNN |url=http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/09/02/hawking.god.universe/?hpt=T2 |title=Stephen Hawking: God didn't create universe |publisher=CNN.com |date=2 September 2010 |accessdate=12 December 2010}}
7. ^Dawkins' God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life – Alister McGrath
8. ^{{cite web|url = http://bedejournal.blogspot.com/2006/12/trouble-with-atheism.html|title = The Trouble with Atheism|publisher =Bede|accessdate = 24 October 2011}}
9. ^1 {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BxQHMvp1LHgC&pg=PA169&lpg=PA169#v=onepage&q&f=false |title=New Scientist – Google Books |publisher=Books.google.co.uk |date=19 October 1972 |accessdate=12 December 2010}}
10. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/faraday/News.php?Mode=Single_Newsletter&ID=69 |title=News | The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion |publisher=St-edmunds.cam.ac.uk |date= |accessdate=12 December 2010 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608010500/http://www.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/faraday/News.php?Mode=Single_Newsletter&ID=69 |archivedate=8 June 2011 |df=dmy }}

External links

  • Closer to Truth videos by Denis Alexander
  • Premier Radio Stephen Law debates Denis Alexander on "God & Science" on Premier Christian Radio
  • Blog post by The Atheist Missionary regarding discussion between Denis Alexander and Stephen Law on Premier Christian Radio's Unbelievable?
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