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Cosmic Roots: The Conflict Between Science And Religion And How It Led To The Secular Age (Hardcover)
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Cosmic Roots: The Conflict Between Science And Religion And How It Led To The Secular Age (Hardcover)
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Cosmic Roots traces the five-thousand-year conflict between science
and religion - and how it has shaped our modern secular
worldview.Told with rare clarity and striking insight, this
fascinating and thought-provoking book focuses on the history of
cosmology and its sister science astronomy. For it was discoveries
within these great disciplines which first led to the conflict
between science and religion. The story begins with the
cosmological beliefs of the ancients - from the flat Earth models
of the Sumerians and Hebrews to the Greek notion of the orbits of
planets as divine circles. Topics progress from Aristotle and
Ptolemy's integrated planetary models to the Sun-centered
cosmologies of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, and the great Isaac
Newton. Their combined scientific achievements stand as testimony
to the power and imagination of the human mind.This meticulously
researched narrative also traces the roots of Western religion,
based on historical events and archeological evidence. It takes us
on a captivating journey through Western religious history - from
ancient paganism to the ethical monotheism of the Hebrews,
Christians, and Moslems. Along the way, we follow the rise and fall
of civilizations, of empires, cycles of war and peace, unification
and division.The book concludes with how Darwin came up with his
theory of evolution and the impact of modern physics on religious
beliefs. The cumulative effect of the scientific discoveries
presented in Cosmic Roots has, for better or for worse, led to the
separation of science and religion we see in Western culture today.
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