Title: Unbelievable Pdf 7 Myths About the History and Future of Science and Religion
Author: Michael Newton Keas
Published Date: 2018-11-05
Page: 288
“Unbelievable should be on the shelf of every science popularizer and college astronomy professor. Perhaps then we can begin to purge our culture of the ‘science is the enemy of religion’ myths Michael Keas slays in his refreshingly contrarian book.” —Guillermo Gonzalez, Assistant Professor of Astronomy, Ball State University; coauthor of The Privileged Planet “Not content to knock down the myths about the alleged conflict between science and religion, Mike Keas shows where they came from and how science popularizers like Carl Sagan have used them to further their own agendas. Using a wide range of sources, including textbooks and television shows, Keas explains how these myths got into the bloodstream of our culture. An invaluable resource.” —James Hannam, author of God’s Philosophers and The Genesis of Science“Michael Keas decisively debunks an array of myths that have long impeded our understanding of the histories of science and of religion. Unbelievable may earn Keas plenty of enemies, but nobody concerned with real evidence can dismiss his argument out of hand. This is a brilliant, engaging, and important contribution to a debate about truly universal matters.” —Dennis Danielson, Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia; editor of The Book of the Cosmos“Michael Keas does a splendid job dispelling viral myths and common errors about the relationship between science and Christianity. This book is well documented and written in a pleasing style accessible to the general reader as well as scholars.” —Jeffrey Burton Russell, Professor of History Emeritus, University of California, Santa Barbara; author of Inventing the Flat Earth“The notion of inevitable, perpetual conflict between science and religion is one of the most prevalent grand narratives in the modern West. It takes many specific forms, and Michael Keas deftly disposes of myths like these with lively, thoroughly researched stories that will leave readers much better informed.” —Edward B. Davis, coeditor of The Works of Robert Boyle “The supposed warfare between science and Christianity has long been a staple of science textbooks and popular science. Michael Keas skewers the most popular myths used to illustrate that warfare, displaying his deep knowledge of the history of science. If you want to understand the true, and positive, relationship between science and Christianity, you should read Unbelievable.” —Jay W. Richards, bestselling author of Infiltrated and Indivisible
You’ve probably heard the stories before. They’re everywhere. Maybe you heard them from Bill Nye the “Science Guy,” or celebrity astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson, or the late Carl Sagan.
And what do the stories say?
That science and religion have been at war with each other for centuries. That religion is anti-science.
There’s just one problem: these stories are pure myth.
Unbelievable explodes seven of the most popular and pernicious myths about science and religion. Michael Newton Keas, a historian of science, lays out the facts to show how far the conventional wisdom departs from reality. He also shows how these myths have proliferated over the past four centuries and exert so much influence today, infiltrating science textbooks and popular culture.
The seven myths, Keas shows, amount to little more than religion bashing—especially Christianity bashing.
Unbelievable reveals:
- Why the “Dark Ages” never happened
- Why we didn’t need Christopher Columbus to prove the earth was round
- Why Copernicus would be shocked to learn that he supposedly demoted humans from the center of the universe
- What everyone gets wrong about Galileo’s clash with the Church, and why it matters today
- Why the vastness of the universe does not deal a blow to religious belief in human significance
- How the popular account of Giordano Bruno as a “martyr for science” ignores the fact that he was executed for theological reasons, not scientific ones
- How a new myth is being positioned to replace religion—a futuristic myth that sounds scientific but isn’t
- In debunking these myths, Keas shows that the real history is much more interesting than the common narrative of religion at war with science.
This accessible and entertaining book offers an invaluable resource to students, scholars, teachers, homeschoolers, and religious believers tired of being portrayed as anti-intellectual and anti-science.
This book will help to bury these old myths The focus of this book is to document the fact, widely accepted among science historians today, that the claim religion, specifically Christianity, has been historically the enemy of science is false. Rather, in fact, science, actually scientism, has been opposed to Christianity for decades. Keas has selected the seven most common claims anti-Christian scientists and others use to denigrate Christianity, using history, science and logic to show they are false. He traces the myths back to the founders of the myths, then shows they were based more on wishful thinking wrong information, or distortion of history than fact. One false myth Keas covers is the idea that it was believed for eons that the universe was so very small that the heavenly bodies were at no great a “distance from the earth,” a belief shown the be wrong by the progress of science (p. 19). Thus science again has proved Christianity wrong, and this wrong belief even opposed science because it discouraged researching the vast distance of our universe. In fact, as Keas documented, many Christian thinkers recognized the enormity of the universe way back in Christian history and Copernicus made our big universe even bigger. The reason this is a concern is the anti-Christians believed that a big universe made humans smaller to the point of making us almost insignificant. Conversely, an enormous God, Christian scientists believed, made God even more important. I know Keas has been working on this book for several years and the research he put into the book shows. I have researched and written about most of the myths he covered, and for his reason can appreciate the enormous amount of research Keas completed in writing the book. In several chapters Keas dug deeper than my research, supporting my basic conclusions. This book will serve to help bury these old myths.So much more than just history -- Astute, Factual, and Well Reasoned If you like history, science, tech, philosophy, theology, or culture, READ IT! People NEED to read this to avoid the dominant cultural myth that is moving millions toward falsehood and error.The past is the key to the present. Okay, I know that I'm using that out of context, but really, isn't an understanding of the past NECESSARY to forming accurate assessments for navigating the future?If major TV programs endorse MAJOR FACTUAL ERRORS significantly deluding the public, who's going to set them right?We need more of Key's astute, factual, and well-reasoned thinking. Not only is well-grounded history presented, but the origins and spread of the myths are precisely traced. Keas' reading well over a hundred historic textbooks on the subject is evident in his clarity and conclusions. But the book is not sloughed down in details. The author does not claim an omniscient perspective like some textbooks, but clearly states his research and its limits. Unlike the myth-makers he critiques, the author shares many of his findings openly regardless of whether they support his view or not. (I don't think Kepler, cited in the book, would want it any other way.) It should be noted that the author's conclusion and content does come up against those purporting the War hypothesis and so-called Copernican principle. But his conclusion moves on from there in a way that really shook me in its relevance.In the same way that overly excitable YouTubers might be screaming that god is about to be created in AI or else descend in the form of ET--so this book is a much needed dose of reality for the seeming majority of TV broadcasters and the American public.From medieval times and the Renaissance to contemporary times and projections about the future, Keas takes his readers further in and further up while reining in the extravagant and hurtful claims of the myth-makers past and present.
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