Oracles of Science : Celebrity Scientists versus God and Religion Hardback
by Karl (Professor of Physics, Professor of Physics, Eastern Nazarene College) Giberson, Mariano (Professor of Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Nature, Professor of Philosop Artigas
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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.
Curiously, the leading "oracles of science" arepredominantly 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 thatscience 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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:25/01/2007
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- ISBN:9780195310726
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:25/01/2007
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- ISBN:9780195310726