Ebook Unbelievable 7 Myths About the History and Future of Science and Religion Michael Newton Keas 9781610171533 Books
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Lies Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson Told Me
You’ve probably heard the stories before. They’re everywhere. Maybe you heard them from Bill Nye the “Science Guy,” or celebrity astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson, or the late Carl Sagan.
And what do the stories say?
That science and religion have been at war with each other for centuries. That religion is anti-science.
There’s just one problem these stories are pure myth.
Unbelievable explodes seven of the most popular and pernicious myths about science and religion. Michael Newton Keas, a historian of science, lays out the facts to show how far the conventional wisdom departs from reality. He also shows how these myths have proliferated over the past four centuries and exert so much influence today, infiltrating science textbooks and popular culture.
The seven myths, Keas shows, amount to little more than religion bashing—especially Christianity bashing.
Unbelievable reveals
- Why the “Dark Ages” never happened
- Why we didn’t need Christopher Columbus to prove the earth was round
- Why Copernicus would be shocked to learn that he supposedly demoted humans from the center of the universe
- What everyone gets wrong about Galileo’s clash with the Church, and why it matters today
- Why the vastness of the universe does not deal a blow to religious belief in human significance
- How the popular account of Giordano Bruno as a “martyr for science” ignores the fact that he was executed for theological reasons, not scientific ones
- How a new myth is being positioned to replace religion—a futuristic myth that sounds scientific but isn’t
- In debunking these myths, Keas shows that the real history is much more interesting than the common narrative of religion at war with science.
This accessible and entertaining book offers an invaluable resource to students, scholars, teachers, homeschoolers, and religious believers tired of being portrayed as anti-intellectual and anti-science.
Ebook Unbelievable 7 Myths About the History and Future of Science and Religion Michael Newton Keas 9781610171533 Books
"My rating may seem a bit harsh coming as it does from a Christian point of view. Bear with me. I believe the history of science is very important. This history clearly shows two distinct things about the whole concept of knowledge and truth. True science has always had a potential to advance human knowledge, but it also has the great potential to mislead the unsuspecting, both the scientist and the layman.
This book attempts to show that science and religion (Christianity in particular) have not always been at war and in fact do not need to be at war. The implication is that modern science and Christianity might come to the meeting of minds in the future. It is true that the founding fathers of modern science were almost all creationists, and many were devout Christians. It is also true that since the Copernican revolution, the “knowledge†said to have been gained, has gradually undermined and sot to exclude the place of Biblical revelation as having any relation to knowledge and truth. In his book, the author sets out some valuable and interesting historical corrections to the popular views of events relating to science and religion, however, he ends up supporting the initial Copernican system with Bruno’s addition of habitable worlds beyond the earth. Thus, giving a nod of approval to those who are attempting to extinguish all reference to the Bible as a source of knowledge and truth about the universe and Man’s place in it.
Consider the following. The Bible says that the heavens and the earth were created by God, modern science says there was no creator and designer God. The bible says that the earth was formed before the sun, moon and stars, science says that the earth was formed after the sun and stars. The Bible says the plants and animals were created after their distinct kinds, science says plants and animals all came from yet lower live forms by way of genetic mutation and natural selection. The Bible indicates that the earth and the universe are relatively young, science says they are very old. The bible indicates that the earth is the center of the created universe, science, presently says there is no center. One could go on and on. The point is that modern science presents a very strong, one might add, rebellious, contradiction of Biblical revelation.
As to history and science, the author barely touches on the fact that Tycho Brahe, who was one of the greatest observational astronomers of his time, did not accept Copernican system and developed what might be called the Tychonian system with the earth remaining at the center of all motion. A modified Tychonian systems remains viable to this day and seems to align more accurately with all the experiments with light from Argo, Airy, Michelson and Morley, Michelson and Gale, the Sagnac effect. Who knows where science might be today if it had not turned aside to the Copernican system? But we, most likely, will never know.
In conclusion, the author starts with some interesting historical observations about the history of science, revealing a number of historical myths, but ends by setting out a false hope that science and religion (Christianity) will find common ground. In the face of this authors fantasy is the fact that the Bible predicts a falling away from the faith once delivered to the saints and a final rebellion against God and His Son, Jesus Christ. The final apostasy is well underway and is being supported by materialism, atheism and “science†falsely so called."
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- The focus of this book is to document the fact, widely accepted among science historians today, that the claim religion, specifically Christianity, has been historically the enemy of science is false. Rather, in fact, science, actually scientism, has been opposed to Christianity for decades. Keas has selected the seven most common claims anti-Christian scientists and others use to denigrate Christianity, using history, science and logic to show they are false. He traces the myths back to the founders of the myths, then shows they were based more on wishful thinking wrong information, or distortion of history than fact. One false myth Keas covers is the idea that it was believed for eons that the universe was so very small that the heavenly bodies were at no great a “distance from the earth,†a belief shown the be wrong by the progress of science (p. 19). Thus science again has proved Christianity wrong, and this wrong belief even opposed science because it discouraged researching the vast distance of our universe. In fact, as Keas documented, many Christian thinkers recognized the enormity of the universe way back in Christian history and Copernicus made our big universe even bigger. The reason this is a concern is the anti-Christians believed that a big universe made humans smaller to the point of making us almost insignificant. Conversely, an enormous God, Christian scientists believed, made God even more important. I know Keas has been working on this book for several years and the research he put into the book shows. I have researched and written about most of the myths he covered, and for his reason can appreciate the enormous amount of research Keas completed in writing the book. In several chapters Keas dug deeper than my research, supporting my basic conclusions. This book will serve to help bury these old myths.
- If you like history, science, tech, philosophy, theology, or culture, READ IT! People NEED to read this to avoid the dominant cultural myth that is moving millions toward falsehood and error.
The past is the key to the present. Okay, I know that I'm using that out of context, but really, isn't an understanding of the past NECESSARY to forming accurate assessments for navigating the future?
If major TV programs endorse MAJOR FACTUAL ERRORS significantly deluding the public, who's going to set them right?
We need more of Key's astute, factual, and well-reasoned thinking. Not only is well-grounded history presented, but the origins and spread of the myths are precisely traced. Keas' reading well over a hundred historic textbooks on the subject is evident in his clarity and conclusions. But the book is not sloughed down in details. The author does not claim an omniscient perspective like some textbooks, but clearly states his research and its limits. Unlike the myth-makers he critiques, the author shares many of his findings openly regardless of whether they support his view or not. (I don't think Kepler, cited in the book, would want it any other way.)
It should be noted that the author's conclusion and content does come up against those purporting the War hypothesis and so-called Copernican principle. But his conclusion moves on from there in a way that really shook me in its relevance.
In the same way that overly excitable YouTubers might be screaming that god is about to be created in AI or else descend in the form of ET--so this book is a much needed dose of reality for the seeming majority of TV broadcasters and the American public.
From medieval times and the Renaissance to contemporary times and projections about the future, Keas takes his readers further in and further up while reining in the extravagant and hurtful claims of the myth-makers past and present. - My rating may seem a bit harsh coming as it does from a Christian point of view. Bear with me. I believe the history of science is very important. This history clearly shows two distinct things about the whole concept of knowledge and truth. True science has always had a potential to advance human knowledge, but it also has the great potential to mislead the unsuspecting, both the scientist and the layman.
This book attempts to show that science and religion (Christianity in particular) have not always been at war and in fact do not need to be at war. The implication is that modern science and Christianity might come to the meeting of minds in the future. It is true that the founding fathers of modern science were almost all creationists, and many were devout Christians. It is also true that since the Copernican revolution, the “knowledge†said to have been gained, has gradually undermined and sot to exclude the place of Biblical revelation as having any relation to knowledge and truth. In his book, the author sets out some valuable and interesting historical corrections to the popular views of events relating to science and religion, however, he ends up supporting the initial Copernican system with Bruno’s addition of habitable worlds beyond the earth. Thus, giving a nod of approval to those who are attempting to extinguish all reference to the Bible as a source of knowledge and truth about the universe and Man’s place in it.
Consider the following. The Bible says that the heavens and the earth were created by God, modern science says there was no creator and designer God. The bible says that the earth was formed before the sun, moon and stars, science says that the earth was formed after the sun and stars. The Bible says the plants and animals were created after their distinct kinds, science says plants and animals all came from yet lower live forms by way of genetic mutation and natural selection. The Bible indicates that the earth and the universe are relatively young, science says they are very old. The bible indicates that the earth is the center of the created universe, science, presently says there is no center. One could go on and on. The point is that modern science presents a very strong, one might add, rebellious, contradiction of Biblical revelation.
As to history and science, the author barely touches on the fact that Tycho Brahe, who was one of the greatest observational astronomers of his time, did not accept Copernican system and developed what might be called the Tychonian system with the earth remaining at the center of all motion. A modified Tychonian systems remains viable to this day and seems to align more accurately with all the experiments with light from Argo, Airy, Michelson and Morley, Michelson and Gale, the Sagnac effect. Who knows where science might be today if it had not turned aside to the Copernican system? But we, most likely, will never know.
In conclusion, the author starts with some interesting historical observations about the history of science, revealing a number of historical myths, but ends by setting out a false hope that science and religion (Christianity) will find common ground. In the face of this authors fantasy is the fact that the Bible predicts a falling away from the faith once delivered to the saints and a final rebellion against God and His Son, Jesus Christ. The final apostasy is well underway and is being supported by materialism, atheism and “science†falsely so called.
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