Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-284) and index That the rise of Christianity was responsible for the demise of ancient science / David C. Lindberg That the medieval Christian church suppressed the growth of science / Michael H. Shank That medieval Christians taught that the earth was flat / Lesley B. Cormack That medieval Islamic culture was inhospitable to science / Syed Nomanul Haq That the medieval church prohibited human dissection / Katharine Park That Copernicanism demoted humans from the center of the cosmos / Dennis R. Danielson That Giordano Bruno was the first martyr of modern science / Jole Shackelford That Galileo was imprisoned and tortured for advocating Copernicanism / Maurice A. Finocchiaro That Christianity gave birth to modern science / Noah J. Efron That the scienfitic revolution liberated science from religion / Margaret J. Osler That Catholics did not contribute to the scientific revolution / Lawrence M. Principe That René Descartes originated the mind-body distinction / Peter Harrison That Isaac Newton's mechanistic cosmology eliminated the need for God / Edward B. Davis That the church denounced anesthesia in childbirth on biblical grounds / Rennie B. Schoepflin That the theory of organic evolution is based on circular reasoning / Nicolaas A. Rupke That evolution destroyed Darwin's faith in Christianity : until he reconverted on his deathbed / James Moore That Huxley defeated Wilberforce in their debate over evolution and religion / David N. Livingstone That Darwin destroyed natural theology / Jon H. Roberts That Darwin and Haeckel were complicit in Nazi biology / Robert J. Richards That the Scopes trial ended in defeat for antievolutionism / Edward J. Larson That Einstein believed in a personal God / Matthew Stanley That Quantum physics demonstrated the doctrine of free will / Daniel Patrick Thurs That "intelligent design" represents a scientific challenge to evolution / Michael Ruse That creationism is a uniquely American phenomenon / Ronald L. Numbers That modern science has secularized Western culture / John Hedley Brooke. |
