Oracles of Science

Celebrity Scientists versus God and Religion

Автор: Karl W. Giberson, Mariano Artigas

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Издател: Oxford University Press Inc

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Oracles of Science examines the popular writings of the six scientists who have been the most influe...

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Автор

Karl W. Giberson, Mariano Artigas

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2009

страници

288

EAN

9780195386189

ISBN

0195386183

Enbook ID

04519013

Издател

Oxford University Press Inc

Теглоt

428

Размери

157 x 233 x 15

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Oracles of Science examines the popular writings of the six scientists who have been the most influential in shaping our perception of science, how it works, and how it relates to other fields of human endeavor, especially religion. Biologists Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Dawkins, and Edward O. Wilson, and physicists Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, and Steven Weinberg, have become public intellectuals, articulating a much larger vision for science and what role it should play in the modern worldview. The scientific prestige and literary eloquence of each of these great thinkers combine to transform them into what can only be called oracles of science. Their controversial, often personal, sometimes idiosyncratic opinions become widely known and perceived by many to be authoritative. Curiously, the leading 'oracles of science' are predominantly secular in ways that don't reflect the distribution of religious beliefs within the scientific community. Many of them are even hostile to religion, creating a false impression that science as a whole is incompatible with religion.Karl Giberson and Mariano Artigas offer an informed analysis of the views of these six scientists, carefully distinguishing science from philosophy and religion in the writings of the oracles. This book will be welcomed by many who are disturbed by the tone of the public discourse on the relationship between science and religion and will challenge others to reexamine their own preconceptions about this crucial topic.

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