When science & Christianity meet /
This book, in language accessible to the general reader, investigates twelve of the most notorious, most interesting, and most instructive episodes involving the interaction between science and Christianity, aiming to tell each story in its historical specificity and local particularity. Among the e...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
©2003.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | This book, in language accessible to the general reader, investigates twelve of the most notorious, most interesting, and most instructive episodes involving the interaction between science and Christianity, aiming to tell each story in its historical specificity and local particularity. Among the events treated in When Science and Christianity Meet are the Galileo affair, the seventeenth-century clockwork universe, Noah's ark and flood in the development of natural history, struggles over Darwinian evolution, debates about the origin of the human species, and the Scopes trial. Readers will be. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 357 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-337) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780226482156 0226482154 1282538012 9781282538016 9786612538018 6612538015 |