Isbn: 9780745955834 - slaying the dragons: destroying myths in the history of science and faith (11 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 256 pages. In 'Slaying the Dragons', professor and member of the Faculty of History at W adham College, Oxford, Allan Chapman examines the claims of the 'New Atheists th at: religion really belongs to an earlier phase of human development, and that n owadays science has taken its place as the yardstick of authority. But are scien ce and religion friends or foes? There are a great many scientists of the highes t intellectual distinction - ranging from cosmology to medical research, who mak e no bones about their faith and cannot understand what the 'New Atheists' are g etting so worked up about.Chapman explores whether anything has changed i n the nature of scientific discovery to allow for the modern atheistic interpret ations of science that did not exist in the past. He also examines whether or no t modern discoveries in biology, brain science, cosmology and physics seriously undermine religious belief.In this study, Allan Chapman examines popular misunderstandings about key events in the history of science-faith relations. He covers the major episodes such as Galileo's trial, the Wilberforce-Huxley debat e and the Scopes trial of 1925, but also looks further back through the medieval period to the Classical age, revealing how these events have acquired mythical and misleading status.Asking if religious modern scientists just the fool s that new atheists paint them to be, or are the latter just so blind in their d ogmatic brain-washing that they cannot see the bigger world beyond their test-tu bes, 'Slaying the Dragons' exposes the atheists' worn-out tale which itself goes back centuries, and which they are trying to spice up with big helpings of rhet oric and ridicule.…

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