In this outstanding work, Gerard Verschuuren responds to the popular myth that the Catholic Church is anti-science. Clearly distinguishing between research and ideology, he probes the scientific discoveries and the non-scientific convictions of Galileo Galilei, Charles Darwin, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Stephen Hawking, and Richard Dawkins.
In this outstanding work, Gerard Verschuuren responds to the popular myth that the Catholic Church is anti-science. Clearly distinguishing between research and ideology, he probes the scientific discoveries and the non-scientific convictions of Galileo Galilei, Charles Darwin, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Stephen Hawking, and Richard Dawkins.