The science-versus-religion war is a story modernity tells itself; the actual history is the opposite. Science and Christianity is a reference defense of the claim that modern science was conceived and developed within Christian Europe — and would not have gotten off the ground without medieval, scholastic, Catholic thought.
The evidence is the receipts: chapter-length lists of 33 prominent pre-1000 A.D. Christians with empiricist proto-scientific views, 59 Catholic medieval and scholastic proto-scientists, 70 Christian scientists from Copernicus to Boyle, 36 from Newton to Lavoisier, 41 from Dalton to Faraday, 56 from Maxwell to Mendel and Pasteur, and 31 from Einstein to Lemaître — plus 115 scientific fields of study founded or extraordinarily advanced by Christian or theistic scientists, and 34 Catholic priest-scientists and mathematicians from 1500 to 1950.
Then the controversies, head-on: Einstein’s “cosmic religion,” the Galileo case (the actual historical record versus the secular revisionist myth), Galileo and his contemporaries’ acceptance of astrology, the scientific errors of Galileo’s own cosmology, and the execution of the Catholic “Father of Chemistry” Antoine Lavoisier by the Enlightenment’s French Revolutionaries.
Inside this book
- Hundreds of prominent Christian, Catholic, and theistic scientists catalogued from before 1000 A.D. to 1950 (33 + 59 + 70 + 36 + 41 + 56 + 31 by century-block)
- 115 scientific fields of study founded or extraordinarily advanced by Christian or theistic scientists
- 34 Catholic priest-scientists and mathematicians, 1500–1950
- The Galileo case as it actually happened — the historical facts versus the secular revisionist myth
- The execution of Antoine Lavoisier, the great Catholic “Father of Chemistry,” by the French Revolution’s “enlightened” terrorists
