This book, in language accessible to the general reader, investigates
twelve of the most notorious, most interesting, and most instructive
episodes involving the interaction between science and Christianity,
aiming to tell each story in its historical specificity and local
particularity. Among the events treated in When Science and
Christianity Meet are the Galileo affair, the seventeenth-century
clockwork universe, Noah's ark and flood in the development of natural
history, struggles over Darwinian evolution, debates about the origin
of the human species, and the Scopes trial. Readers will be introduced
to St. Augustine, Roger Bacon, Pope Urban VIII, Isaac Newton,
Pierre-Simon de Laplace, Carl Linnaeus, Charles Darwin, T. H. Huxley,
Sigmund Freud, and many other participants in the historical drama of
science and Christianity. “Taken together, these papers provide a
comprehensive survey of current thinking on key issues in the
relationships between science and religion, pitched—as the editors
intended—at just the right level to appeal to students.”—Peter
J. Bowler, Isis
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ISBN
9780226482156
Publisert
2018
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Vendor
University of Chicago Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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