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Science and Certainty addresses the central issue of why certain areas of science cause concern to many people today: in particular, those which seem to have implications for the meaning of human existence, and for man's significance on this planet and in the universe as a whole. The book addresses the perceived hostility which has arisen towards science, not only amongst many people with religious beliefs, but also in parts of the environmental movement. In the first part of the book is an account of just what science does in fact ask us to believe about the most fundamental aspects of reality: how did the cosmos, and our own special part of it, come to be? how did life emerge and how did we arise within it? What can be say about the essential nature of the physical world? and, What can be said about the physical basis of the consciousness. The second part of the book considers the implications of accepting the scientific world view. After providing some historical and philosophical background to environmentalism, the author outlines the major environmental problems confronting the world today, and makes the case that it is only through science that we can hope to solve them.|Looks at what science asks us to believe about aspects of reality, and considers the implications of accepting the scientific world view.

"Science and Certainty is a thoughtful and stimulating treatment of the nature and role of science in probing the nature of life and its home on planet earth. The selection of topics presents us with a palate which all thoughtful readers will appreciate and find engaging and will conclude, I am confident, that it is a book they are pleased they have read."--Dr Jim Peacock, Chief Scientist Australian Government and CSIRO Fellow