DISCERNING THE VOICE OF ZYGON: IDENTITY AND ISSUES.

The challenge to the journal Zygon as suggested here is to respond to three different reference groups: public intellectuals, academia, and religious communities. An extended discussion follows of what I term the situation of irony in which religion-and-science finds itself. I argue that this situation of irony actually constitutes the domain in which our greatest contributions can be offered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]