The author discusses the attitude of the Catholic church towards science, telling the story using various documents. Selected contents: the supposed Papal prohibition of dissection; the story of anatomy down to the Renaissance; the golden age of anatomy--Vesalius; the supposed Papal prohibition of chemistry; a Papal patron of education and science; the church and surgery during the Middle Ages; the Popes and medical education and the Papal ...

The chief aim of this book is to show that the doctrine of science does not really come into collision with the creed of Christendom. Science, if it does not help in the belief of personal survival after bodily death, is also no hindrance. The author, being both a parish priest and a University teacher of science, treats this subject from both scientific and a religious standpoints. ...

The chief argument of this work is being that the popular objections to Christian beliefs might be urged with equal force against each of the predominant systems of science of the present day, and are the necessary result of the limitations of our human knowledge; that so far from proving the inconsequence of our religious beliefs, the oppositions so greatly magnified plainly point to a condition in which the limitations that now narrow our ...

This book explores the powerful new evidence discovered in the last few decades by scientific research in astronomy, the nature of the atom and DNA. These discoveries have caused a revolution in the world view of thousands of scientists as they were confronted with compelling new evidence that our universe must have been created by a Supernatural Mind. Grant Jeffrey's latest book, "Creation," will challenge readers with fascinating new ...

Proof is everywhere for the existence of a mighty creator. Who is active in the universe and even in each person's life. Modern science proves that chance evolution is impossible. Mathematically, it is impossible for even a single species to happen accidentally. Scientists now say the universe and creation require a vital force. Describes notable passages from the Quran, learn solid scientific facts, which describe the true origins of creation as ...

Have we been taught true history? Is Newton and Galileo's fame based upon fables? Which cultures were the true sources of modern science - Eastern or Western? How could the West produce it if it was immersed in the dark ages? was Di Vinci merely a painter and designer, never a scientist? Learn the real origins of modern science as well as discoveries like the telescope, compass, time pieces, eye glasses, modern mathematics, modern medicine, and ...

"This is an excellent book for all to read and to give as a gift to interested skeptics." ...

These Boyle Lectures begin by showing that which skeptics of all kinds believe, and then what, from their own standpoint, they ought to believe. This accomplished, it is next shown what new necessities & obligations, logical & moral, come from the step already taken; and so forward, point by point, until the Catholic Faith in Christ is reached. Contents: scope of the lectures; classes of agnostics addressed; nature of evidence; ...

These new essays and poems by a leading scholar of Jewish mysticism explore the connections between sexuality, divinity, and textuality. The author works with topics such as the gender of the Godhead, Apocalypse in the Kabbalah, the suffering of God and the hermeneutics of mystical experience, addressing them through the dual--and here, interdependent--mediums of scholarly writing and visionary poetry. The poems and essays reverberate with one ...

When Wright saw the confusion in the church and the secular world concerning the common ground between the Bible and the sciences, he decided to find a format that would do justice to both. ...