Flat Earths and Fake Footnotes

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We are all haunted by histories. They shape our presuppositions and ballast our judgments. In terms of science and religion this means most of us walk about haunted by rumors of a long war. However, there is no such thing as the “history of the conflict of science and Christianity,” and this is a book about it. In the last half of the twentieth century a sea change in the history of science and religion occurred, revealing not only that the perception of protracted warfare between religion and science was a curious set of mythologies that had been combined together into a sort of supermyth in need of debunking. It was also seen that this collective mythology arose in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by historians involved in many sides of the debates over Darwin’s discoveries, and from there latched onto the public imagination at large. 
Flat Earths and Fake Footnotes takes the reader on a journey showing how these myths were constructed, collected together, and eventually debunked. Join us for a story of flat earths and fake footnotes, to uncover the strange tale of how the conflict of science and Christianity was written into history. 
 From the Back Cover \n"Flat Earths and Fake Footnotes offers a comprehensive and compelling demolition of 
the tired myth of an enduring conflict between science and religion. Peterson not only 
exposes the historical bankruptcy of this familiar story, but also shows how it became 
a foundational narrative for Western modernity and why it persists. Beautifully written 
and impeccably researched, this book deserves a wide readership."\n-Peter Harrison, 
Former Andreas-Idreos Chair of Science and Religion, Oxford University, Current Australian Laureate Fellow and Author of The Territories of Science and Religion\n"Peterson shows himself a gifted storyteller as well as scholar, combining true 
accounts of famous events (which prove no less interesting than the legends that have 
grown up around them and in some cases have replaced them) with the story of how 
those events were overlaid and refashioned into the myth so many treat as common 
knowledge today: the untrue history of the war between religion and science. In an era 
full of so much untruth, Peterson's book is a breath of fresh air."\n--James F. McGrath 
Clarence L. Goodwin Chair in New Testament Language and Literature, 
Butler University and Author of Science Fiction Theology.\n"This work on the historiography of science and Christianity is 
must-reading for high schoolers and college students, along with their parents and 
professors, and will, if heeded, change the way future generations will see the world. It 
is not easy to debunk a history that never happened, but Peterson has done precisely 
that, and achieved it admirably. The history of science is littered with stellar figures 
of immense importance, erudite thinking, and deeply Christian convictions. A new 
generation of Christians needs to be reacquainted with these scientific saints and Peterson's 
work is a sure guide to this task."\n--Myk Habets, Senior Lecturer in Theology, 
Laidlaw College, New Zealand. Author of Theology in Transposition: A Constructive Appraisal of T.F. Torrance\n"Peterson is seeking to wake us from our dogmatic slumbers. Historians of 
science, scholars of religion, and theologians often plough separate furrows, paying 
little attention to each other's work. But in Flat Earths and Fake Footnotes, Peterson has 
brought them all into conversation, condensing a truly vast amount of scholarship. He 
has shown, moreover, that scholars ignore each other at their own peril. Despite over 
a hundred years of scholarship debunking the so-called 'conflict thesis,' the idea that 
science and religion are at war, perceptions of conflict persist. The only way forward 
from our scholarly impasse is to combine these fields of scholarship to paint a more 
comprehensive picture of what is going on. Impeccably researched and thoroughly 
readable, Pe

Flat Earths and Fake Footnotes: The Strange Tale of How the Conflict of Science and Christianity Was Written Into History

Peterson, Derrick

Religion & Spirituality

Cascade Books

We are all haunted by histories. They shape our presuppositions and ballast our judgments. In terms of science and religion this means most of us walk about haunted by rumors of a long war. However, there is no such thing as the "history of the conflict of science and Christianity," and this is a book about it. In the last half of the twentieth century a sea change in the history of science and religion occurred, revealing not only that the perception of protracted warfare between religion and science was a curious set of mythologies that had been combined together into a sort of supermyth in need of debunking. It was also seen that this collective mythology arose in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by historians involved in many sides of the debates over Darwin's discoveries, and from there latched onto the public imagination at large. Flat Earths and Fake Footnotes takes the reader on a journey showing how these myths were constructed, collected together, and eventually debunked. Join us for a story of flat earths and fake footnotes, to uncover the strange tale of how the conflict of science and Christianity was written into history.

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