Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and ReligionRonald L. Numbers If we want nonscientists and opinion-makers in the press, the lab, and the pulpit to take a fresh look at the relationship between science and religion, Ronald Numbers suggests that we must first dispense with the hoary myths that have masqueraded too long as historical truths. |
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Myth 2 That the Medieval Christian Church Suppressed the Growth of Science | 19 |
Myth 3 That Medieval Christians Taught That the Earth Was Flat | 28 |
Myth 4 That Medieval Islamic Culture Was Inhospitable to Science | 35 |
Myth 5 That the Medieval Church Prohibited Human Dissection | 43 |
Myth 6 That Copernicanism Demoted Humans from the Center of the Cosmos | 50 |
Myth 7 That Giordano Bruno Was the First Martyr of Modern Science | 59 |
Myth 15 That the Theory of Organic Evolution Is Based on Circular Reasoning | 131 |
Myth 16 That Evolution Destroyed Darwins Faith in ChristianityUntil He Reconverted on His Deathbed | 142 |
Myth 17 That Huxley Defeated Wilberforce in Their Debate over Evolution and Religion | 152 |
Myth 18 That Darwin Destroyed Natural Theology | 161 |
Myth 19 That Darwin and Haeckel Were Complicit in Nazi Biology | 170 |
Myth 20 That the Scopes Trial Ended in Defeat for Antievolutionism | 178 |
Myth 21 That Einstein Believed in a Personal God | 187 |
Myth 22 That Quantum Physics Demonstrated the Doctrine of Free Will | 196 |
Myth 8 That Galileo Was Imprisoned and Tortured for Advocating Copernicanism | 68 |
Myth 9 That Christianity Gave Birth to Modern Science | 79 |
Myth 10 That the Scientific Revolution Liberated Science from Religion | 90 |
Myth 11 That Catholics Did Not Contribute to the Scientific Revolution | 99 |
Myth 12 That René Descartes Originated the MindBody Distinction | 107 |
Myth 13 That Isaac Newtons Mechanistic Cosmology Eliminated the Need for God | 115 |
Myth 14 That the Church Denounced Anesthesia in Child birth on Biblical Grounds | 123 |
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Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion Ronald L. Numbers Limited preview - 2010 |
Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion Ronald L. Numbers Limited preview - 2009 |