Keyword Index
for the Journal of the
American Scientific Affiliation
and Perspectives on
Science and Christian Faith

This list includes all the (approximately 650) entries that may be found in the "Keys" field of the ASA Journal data base. The keywords are hyper-linked to the data base so that when the user clicks on the keyword the database is searched for that word and the search engine returns bibliographic data from Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith or from the Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation. Words in parentheses are not in the data base; they are only for clarification here.

Users should be cautioned that there is no guarantee of consistency in the assignment of these keywords to all relevant entries in the database; searches should therefore be done using several related keywords to assure an adequate search. Searches using other than the keywords listed here can be done from the Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith home page.

A

abortion absolutes Abraham accommodation Adam aesthetics Africa afterlife Agassiz age age of earth age of mankind age of universe alienation altruism America amino acids allegory amorality analogy ancient history angels animals animism Anselm anthropic principle anthropocentrism anthropomorphism anti-Christian views antinomies anti-science antithesis apparent age Apocrypha apologetics appropriate technology Aquinas Aristotle arms control art artifacts artificial intelligence ASA Asia atheism atmosphere atonement Augustine Australia authority authorship autonomy

B

Babylon Bacon (Francis) balance baptism Barth being beginning belief behavior behaviorism Bible biblicism bibliography birth control black people blood body Bohr Bonhoeffer Boyle brain breeding Britain Brunner Buddhism

C

calendar Calvin Calvinism calling Canada capital punishment catastrophe catastrophism Catholicism causality cause cave artifacts cell certainty Chalcedon chance chaos charity children China Christ Christian living Christian values Christianity chronology church chromosomes civil rights cloning coherence commandments commitment common sense communication community complementarity compromise computers concordism conditioning conflict conscience consciousness conservation content contingency continuous creation contraception conversion Copernicus cosmogeny cosmogony cosmology covenant creation creation of universe creation of life creation of mankind creationism Creator creativity crime criticism cults cultural relativism culture cybernetics

D

dating day day-age Darwin Darwinism David da Vinci death de Chardin, Teilhard deduction deism demons depression Descartes description design determinism Dewey (John) dialectic dialogue dignity discovery disease diversity DNA doctrine dogmatism Dooyeweerd doubt drugs dualism Durkheim

E

earth Eastern cultures ecosystems education Einstein elements elementary particles Ellul emergent properties emotions empiricism energy Enlightenment entropy environment environmental ethics enzymes epistemology equality errors (alleged in Bible) eschatology ESP eternity eugenics Europe euthanasia evangelicalism evangelism Eve evidence evil evolution evolutionism existence exegesis existentialism experience experiment explanation extraterrestrials eye

F

fact faith family Fall fallacies falsification Faraday fate feedback fellowship Flood Flood geology food forces forgiveness fossils Frankl freedom free enterprise free will Freud function functionalism fundamentalism future

G

games gaps galaxies Galileo games Gamow genealogy Genesis genes genetic code geocentric universe geologic time gifts Gilkey glory goals God God of the gaps Goedel Gospel grace gravitation Greek language Greek philosophy growth guilt

H

handicaps health healing heart heaven Hebrew culture Hebrew language Hegel Heisenberg hermeneutics Hinduism history of science history of ASA hoaxes holism holiness Holy Spirit hominids homosexuality hope Hoyle Hubble constant human humanism humanities human nature Hume humility hunger Huxley (T.H.) hypnotism hypothesis

I

idealism identity ideology image of God immanence immortality incarnation indeterminism India individual induction inerrancy information theory inspiration instrumentalism integration intelligence intelligibility interpretation introspection intuition irrationality Isaiah Islam Israel

J

Jaki James (William) Japan Job Judaism judgment Jung justice justification

K

Kant Kepler Kierkegaard kinds kingdom of God knowledge Kuhn

L

Lamarck Laplace land use language Latin America leadership legalism Leibniz levels Lewis (C.S.) liberal theology life limitations (of science) literalism literary criticism loneliness long day (of Joshua) Lorentz love Luther Lyell

M

Mach MacKay (Donald M.) magnetism Malthus marriage Marx Marxism Mary materialism matter Maxwell meaning mechanistic view medieval culture meditation Mendel mental health mental illness Mesopotamia metallurgy metaphor metaphysics method microevolution Middle East mind-brain problem minerals miracles models modernism molecules money monism morality Mormons morphology Morris (Henry) Moses motivation murder mutation mystery mysticism myth

N

nationalism natural evil natural selection natural theology naturalism nature neo-orthodoxy neurons neurosis New Age new nature New Testament Newton Niebuhr (H.R.) Noah nominalism nuclear energy nuclear weapons nucleotides numerology

O

objectivity observation oceans Old Testament ontology order organic unity organism organization origin of universe origin of life origin of species

P

pacifism Paley Palestine parable paradox paranoia parapsychology Pascal Paul (Apostle) persecution personalism personality personhood perspectives phylogeny piety Planck planets planning Plantinga Plato platonism Plotinus pluralism poetry Polanyi (Michael) polarity pollution Popper population postulates poverty pragmatism prayer predestination predictions prejudice presuppositions pride probability problem process theology progress progressive creationism progressive revelation proof proofs (of God's existence) prophecy protein Protestantism providence pseudo-science psychoanalysis psychology psychosis Ptolemy public policy public schools punishment purpose

Q

quantum physics quasars

R

races racism radioactivity radioactive dating rationalism rationality realism reality rebellion reconciliation redemption reductionism reformation regeneration relativism relationships relativity religion repression reproduction research resources responsibility resurrection revelation revolution righteousness rights risks RNA Russell (Bertrand)

S

sabbath sacraments salvation Satan Schaeffer (Francis) schizophrenia scientism scientific community scientific creationism scientific method Scopes trial Second Coming secularism self self-esteem self-reference selfishness semantics Seventh-day Adventists sex sexuality sin singleness skepticism Skinner (B.F.) social Darwinism social action social issues socialism sociobiology soil Socrates solar system Solomon soul sovereignty (of God) Soviet Union space special creationism species Spencer Spinoza Spirit of God spirituality spontaneous generation stars stewardship stimulus-response stress structure subconscious subjectivism suffering supernatural supernova superstition Sustainer (God as) symbols syncretism

T

teleology television temporality terminology Tertullian theism theistic evolution theodicy theory thermodynamics thinking Third World Tillich time TM Torrance totalitarianism Tournier (Paul) tradition traits transcendence transcendental meditation transplants transportation Trinity truth

U

uncertainty unconscious uniformitarianism unity Ussher utilitarianism Utopia

V

vaccination values Van Til (Cornelius) verification vestigial organs virgin birth virtues viruses vitalism vocation Vollenhoven von Rad von Weizsaecker

W

Wallace war Warfield waste water weather Weber (Max) Western culture Wheeler (John A.) Whitehead whole and parts will wisdom woman work worship

Y

yoga

Z

zen