Ian Graeme Barbour was an American scholar on the relationship between science and religion.
16 Facts About Ian Barbour
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Ian Barbour's family left China in 1931 and Barbour spent the remainder of his youth in the United States and England.
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Ian Barbour received his Bachelor of Science degree in physics from Swarthmore College and his Master of Science degree in physics from Duke University in 1946.
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Ian Barbour earned a Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1956 from Yale University's Divinity School.
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Ian Barbour taught at Carleton College beginning with a joint appointment in the departments of physics and philosophy.
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Ian Barbour began teaching religion full-time in 1960, when the university established a religion department.
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Ian Barbour retired in 1986 as the Winifred and Atherton Bean Professor Emeritus of Science, Technology and Society.
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Ian Barbour gave the Gifford lectures from 1989 to 1991 at the University of Aberdeen.
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Ian Barbour was awarded the Templeton Prize in 1999 for Progress in Religion in recognition of his efforts to create a dialogue between the worlds of science and religion.
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Ian Barbour was married to Deane Kern from 1947 until her death in 2011.
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Ian Barbour suffered a stroke on December 20,2013, at his home in Northfield, Minnesota, and remained in a coma at Abbott Northwestern Hospital until his death four days later.
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Ian Barbour claimed the basic structure of religion is similar to that of science in some ways but differs on some crucial points.
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Ian Barbour's arguments have been developed in significant and diverse ways by a variety of scholars, including Arthur Peacocke, John Polkinghorne, Sallie McFague, and Robert John Russell.
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Ian Barbour considered critical realism an alternative to the competing interpretations of scientific theories: classical or naive realism, instrumentalism, and idealism.
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Ian Barbour compared methods of inquiry in science and religion, and has explored the theological implications of the natural and social sciences.
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Ian Barbour has lectured widely on ethical issues in such fields as climate change, technology policy, energy, agriculture, computers, and cloning.