Magisteria - Nicholas Spencer
Magisteria - Nicholas Spencer Science and religion have always been at each other's throats, right?Most things you 'know' about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last…
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Magisteria - Nicholas Spencer
Science and religion have always been at each other's throats, right?Most things you 'know' about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain widespread today.The true history of science and religion is a human one. It's about the sincere but eccentric faith and the quiet, creeping doubts of the most brilliant scientists in history - Galileo, Newton, Faraday, Darwin, Maxwell, Einstein. It's about the role of religion in inspiring, and strangling, science before the scientific revolution.
Above all it's about the question of what it means to be human and who gets to say - a question that is more urgent in the twenty-first century than ever before.From eighth-century Baghdad to the frontiers of AI today, via medieval Europe, nineteenth-century India and Soviet Russia, Magisteria sheds