The Catholic Church & Science: Answering the Questions, Exposing the Myths
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Were the Middle Ages dark for science? Did the pope say Darwin was right? From the Big Bang to Galileo, from the origins of life on Earth to the existence of life on other planets, The Catholic Church and Science clears away the fog of falsehood and misunderstanding to reveal a faith whose doctrines do not contradict the facts of science, but harmonize with them and a univ Were the Middle Ages dark for science? From the Big Bang to Galileo, from the origins of life on Earth to the existence of life on other planets, The Catholic Church and Science clears away the fog of falsehood and misunderstanding to reveal a faith whose doctrines do not contradict the facts of science, but harmonize with them and a universe whose uncanny order and precision point not to chance assemblage by random forces, but to the purpose-built design of an intelligent creator.
Author Ben Wiker The Darwin Myth, A Meaningful World takes on the most common errors that modern materialistic thinkers, convinced that faith and science must be mortal enemies, have foisted into popular culture. With great learning, clarity, and wit he tackles stubborn confusions many people have about the relationship between Christianity especially Catholicism and the empirical sciences, and separates truth from lies, the factual from the fanciful.
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Earths in the Universe didn't just drea Another series of trenchant essays devoted to showing how what Everybody Knows on the subject is wrong, including the fraud of the "war between science and theology" and the Galileo, Galileo, Galileo mantra I was however gravely disappointed by the last section, where he lets his views on the unlikelihood of aliens color his presentation of it as somehow "the" Catholic position.
Earths in the Universe didn't just dream it up out of nowhere!
I was surprised as everyone else in the congregation will be to learn that Seventh-Day Adventism and the Oneida Pefectionists are "Swedenborgian offshoots". While in his dismissed-in-a-footnote assessment of C. Lewis who was presumably also lured by the "Swedenborgian" siren song, despite his own airy dismissal of Swedenborg in The Great Divorce , Wiker apparently did not even read his serious treatment of the question in "Religion and Rocketry" The World's Last Night: And Other Essays , or even the briefer one in Miracles: The universe may be full of happy lives that never needed redemption.
It may be full of lives that have been redeemed in modes suitable to their condition, of which we can form no conception. It may be full of lives that have been redeemed in the very same mode as our own.
It may be full of things quite other than life in which God is interested though we are not. This is hardly, as Wiker claims, a flippant declaration that "the idea of aliens is folly", much less a dismissal of the Catholic thinkers mentioned above. Aug 21, Paul rated it liked it. This is a disappointing book. I find it hard to believe it could have value other than in a very ad intram setting; it is quite unapologetic in the theological sense. The second chapter, about the history of science in the Middle Ages, was as I recall the best.
The thread in the latter two-thirds of the book, that traces all modern materialism, and particularly Darwinism, back to Epicurus and Lucretius in a very direct way, is an interesting thesis. The last chapter, about extraterrestrial life, is This is a disappointing book.
The last chapter, about extraterrestrial life, is very up and down. As is often the case, he presents some intriguing bits of history.
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His attempt to sketch a continuous stream of speculation dating all the way back to Etienne Tempier regarding the likelihood--nay, the necessity! On the other hand, the author himself is guilty of attempting to create an argument against extraterrestrial life out of, basically, nothing; some very vague bleating about how the Incarnation would not really make any sense, would be "diluted" somehow. His dismissal of the "many worlds" hypothesis is also empty.
In both these cases, he betrays the same kind of inability to accept ignorance that characterizes the crappy thinking he elsewhere criticizes. It's also true that the "many worlds" hypothesis, at least as held by many people, is conveniently untestable. That doesn't mean that it isn't or couldn't be true--that's actually the precise form of a garden variety empty argument against theism. Further, even if it is true, it leaves exactly zero less place for God to exist, governing the whole scheme.
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