Galileo goes to jail : and other myths about science and religion, edited by Ronald L. Numbers

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Title remainder: and other myths about science and religion

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Galileo goes to jail : and other myths about science and religion

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Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2009

Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-284) and index

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That the medieval church prohibited human dissection
Katharine Park
That Copernicanism demoted humans from the center of the cosmos
Dennis R. Danielson
That Giordano Bruno was the first martyr of modern science
Jole Shackelford
That Galileo was imprisoned and tortured for advocating Copernicanism
Maurice A. Finocchiaro
That Christianity gave birth to modern science
Noah J. Efron
That the rise of Christianity was responsible for the demise of ancient science
That the scienfitic revolution liberated science from religion
Margaret J. Osler
That Catholics did not contribute to the scientific revolution
Lawrence M. Principe
That René Descartes originated the mind-body distinction
Peter Harrison
That Isaac Newton's mechanistic cosmology eliminated the need for God
Edward B. Davis
That the church denounced anesthesia in childbirth on biblical grounds
Rennie B. Schoepflin
David C. Lindberg
That the theory of organic evolution is based on circular reasoning
Nicolaas A. Rupke
That evolution destroyed Darwin's faith in Christianity : until he reconverted on his deathbed
James Moore
That Huxley defeated Wilberforce in their debate over evolution and religion
David N. Livingstone
That Darwin destroyed natural theology
Jon H. Roberts
That Darwin and Haeckel were complicit in Nazi biology
Robert J. Richards
That the medieval Christian church suppressed the growth of science
That the Scopes trial ended in defeat for antievolutionism
Edward J. Larson
That Einstein believed in a personal God
Matthew Stanley
That Quantum physics demonstrated the doctrine of free will
Daniel Patrick Thurs
That "intelligent design" represents a scientific challenge to evolution
Michael Ruse
That creationism is a uniquely American phenomenon
Ronald L. Numbers
Michael H. Shank
That modern science has secularized Western culture
John Hedley Brooke
That medieval Christians taught that the earth was flat
Lesley B. Cormack
That medieval Islamic culture was inhospitable to science
Syed Nomanul Haq

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