Have science and Christianity been locked in mortal combat for the
past 2000 years? Or has their relationship been one of peaceful
coexistence, encouragement, and support? Both opinions have been
vigorously defended, widely disseminated, and hotly debated. And
both have been rejected by knowledgeable historians as unacceptable
oversimplifications of the historical reality.
This book steps back from those debates, abandoning, for the
present, the attempt to formulate or defend generalizations of such
breadth and scope. Its authors believe that every encounter had its
own peculiar shape and that each must be examined uniquely before
broader attempts at generalization are likely to succeed. This
book, in language accessible to the general reader, investigates
twelve of the most notorious, most interesting, and most
instructive cases, aiming to tell each story in its historical
specificity and local particularity.
Among the episodes treated in "When Science and Christianity Meet"
are the Galileo affair, the 17th-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.
Contributors:
*William B. Ashworth Jr.
*Thomas H. Broman
*Janet Browne
*Mott T. Greene
*Edward J. Larson
*David C. Lindberg
*David N. Livingstone
*Robert Bruce Mullin
*G. Blair Nelson
*Ronald L.Numbers
*Jon H. Roberts
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