Slaying the Dragons - Destroying Myths in the History of Science and Faith

Are science and faith the common enemies we are led to believe? This important study examines popular misunderstandings about key events in the history of science-faith relations. Lively and often surprising, it covers the major episodes such as Galileo's trial, the Wilberforce-Huxley debate and the Scopes trial of 1925, but also looks further back through the medieval period to the Classical age, revealing how these events have acquired mythical and misleading status.

About the author

Allan Chapman FRAS is a world-renowned historian of science based at Wadham College, Oxford. He has appeared on a variety of television documentaries and on the BBC's The Sky at Night, as well as presenting Gods in the Sky and Great Scientists. His books include Comets, Cosmology and the Big Bang, Physicians, Plagues and Progress and Stargazers.

Product details

• Authors: Chapman, Allan Chapman
• Publisher: Spck
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.2013
• EAN: 9780745955834
• ISBN: 978-0-7459-5583-4
• No. of pages: 258
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 369 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works