Author:
Pearcey, Nancy R.
Imprint:Wheaton, Ill. : Crossway Books, c1994.
Descriptionxiii, 298 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Note:"Pearcey and Thaxton show that the alliance between atheism and science is a temporary aberration and that, far from being inimical to science, Christian theism has played and will continue to play an important role in the growth of scientific understanding. This brilliant book deserves wide readership."--Phillip E. Johnson, University of California, Berkeley
Note:Part I : The new history of science. An invented institution: Christianity and the scientific revolution ; The history of science and the science of history: contemporary approaches and their intellectual roots -- Part II : The first scientific revolution. A new "thinking cap": three little sciences and how they grew ; The Newtonian world machine: how does God relate to the world? ; The belated revolution in biology: taking biology from metaphysics -- Part III : The rise and fall of mathematics. Math in the past: discovering the structure of creation ; The idol falls: non-Euclidian geometry and the revolution in mathematics -- Part IV : The second scientific revolution. Is everything relative? The revolution in physics ; Quantum mysteries: making sense of the new physics ; A chemical code: resolving historical controversies.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-286) and index.
