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Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
Ronald L. Numbers
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Myth 1. That the Rise of Christianity Was Responsible for the Demise of Ancient Science
David C. Lindberg
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Myth 2. That the Medieval Christian Church Suppressed the Growth of Science
Michael H. Shank
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Myth 3. That Medieval Christians Taught That the Earth Was Flat
Lesley B. Cormack
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Myth 4. That Medieval Islamic Culture Was Inhospitable to Science
S. Nomanul Haq
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Myth 5. That the Medieval Church Prohibited Human Dissection
Katharine Park
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Myth 6. That the Copernican System Demoted Humans from the Center of the Cosmos
Dennis R. Danielson
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Myth 7. That Giordano Bruno Was the First Martyr of Modern Science
Jole Shackelford
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Myth 8. That Galileo Was Imprisoned and Tortured for Advocating Copernicanism
Maurice A. Finocchiaro
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Myth 9. That Christianity Gave Birth to Modern Science
Noah Efron
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Myth 10. That the Scientific Revolution Liberated Science from Religion
Margaret J. Osler
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Myth 11. That Catholics Did Not Contribute to the Scientific Revolution
Lawrence Principe
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Myth 12. That René Descartes Originated the Mind-Body Distinction
Peter Harrison
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Myth 13. That Isaac Newton’s Mechanistic Cosmology Eliminated the Need for God
Edward Davis
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Myth 14. That the Church Denounced Anesthesia in Childbirth on Biblical Grounds
Rennie B. Schoepflin
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Myth 15. That the Theory of Organic Evolution Is Based on Circular Reasoning
Nicolaas A. Rupke
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Myth 16. That Evolution Destroyed Charles Darwin’s Faith in Christianity—until He Reconverted on His Deathbed
James Moore
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Myth 17. That Huxley Defeated Wilberforce in Their Debate over Evolution and Religion
David N. Livingstone
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Myth 18. That Darwin Destroyed Natural Theology
Jon H. Roberts
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Myth 19. That Darwin and Haeckel Were Complicit in Nazi Biology
Robert J. Richards
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Myth 20. That the Scopes Trial Ended in Defeat for Antievolutionism
Edward J. Larson
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Myth 21. That Einstein Believed in a Personal God
Matthew Stanley
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Myth 22. That Quantum Physics Demonstrated the Doctrine of Free Will
Daniel P. Thurs
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Myth 23. That “Intelligent Design” Represents a Scientific Challenge to Evolution
Michael Ruse
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Myth 24. That Creationism Is a Uniquely American Phenomenon
Ronald L. Numbers
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Myth 25. That Modern Science Has Secularized Western Culture
John Hedley Brooke
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Notes
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List of Contributors
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Index
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