Oracles of Science: Celebrity Scientists Versus God and Religion

<p>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" are predominantly 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 that science 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.<br></p>

Oracles of Science: Celebrity Scientists versus God and Religion

Politics & Social Sciences

Karl Giberson

Mariano Artigas

Philosophy

Oxford University Press

For centuries historians, scientists, journalists, and playwrights have speculated—sometimes wildly—about Galileo's infamous encounter with the Roman Catholic Church. In their compelling critique of these efforts, Shea and Artigas draw on old and new evidence to try to set the record straight, regardless of whose toes they might be stepping on.

Galileo Observed: Science and the Politics of Belief

William R. Shea

History

Science History Publications

131 pages. Nature of philosophy. Division of philosophy. Philosophy and Christianity.

Introduction to Philosophy (Philosophy Books Series)

Sinag-tala Publishers, Inc.

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