Background
Austin, David Brian was born on February 27, 1961 in Danville, Kentucky, United States. Son of Thomas Brian Austin and Bonnie Grubbs Negola.
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In many ways human advance and even survival depend on the harmonization of our religious and scientific instincts, instincts that have diverged drastically in modern times. The End of Certainty and the Beginning of Faith portrays a vision for uniting the aims of science and Christian faith by examining the retreat from certainty that characterizes contemporary science and philosophy. Science in the 20th century is beginning to realize, through a retreat from claims of certainty, it affinity with the heart of faith. Drawing on the thought of American philosophers Charles Sanders Peirce, D. Brian Austin charts a course for this harmonization into the fuzzy but astoundingly fruitful future. This chancy, creative, and open worldview, assembling itself piecemeal from advances in the specialized sciences, is deeply congenial to a robust Christian faith. For this universe is not one of foregone conclusions, but a world of inexorable uncertainty, pervasive randomness, and real risk that calls for real commitment. Austin describes the broad philosophical and scientific reasons behind the growth of this newly prevalent worldview and suggests reasons why it promises to make allies of religion and science.
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Austin, David Brian was born on February 27, 1961 in Danville, Kentucky, United States. Son of Thomas Brian Austin and Bonnie Grubbs Negola.
Bachelor, Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama, 1982. Master of Divinity, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, 1985. Doctor of Philosophy, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, 1989.
Instructor philosophy University Louisville, 1987—1990. Assistant professor philosophy University Cumberlands, Williamsburg, 1990—1995. Associate professor and chair, philosophy Carson-Newman College, Jefferson City, Tennessee, since 1995.
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Youth soccer referee and coach, Dandridge, Tennessee, 1995.
Married Sandra Weldon Austin, May 24, 1982. Children: David Paul, Seth Weldon.