The Struggle Between Science and Superstition
Author | : Arthur M. Lewis |
Publisher | : Literary Licensing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2014-03 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781494130855 |
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1915 Edition.
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Author | : Arthur M. Lewis |
Publisher | : Literary Licensing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2014-03 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781494130855 |
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1915 Edition.
Author | : Arthur M B 1873 Lewis |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-07-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781020021701 |
This timely book explores the ongoing tension between scientific knowledge and irrational belief. With incisive analysis and thought-provoking examples, the author makes a compelling case for rational thinking, critical inquiry, and evidence-based decision-making. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author | : Arthur M. Lewis |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2018-02-02 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780267528936 |
Excerpt from The Struggle Between Science and Superstition I wish here to acknowledge my edness to the authors named abov mcintyre 's biography of Brun Bury 's History of Freedom of T] especially to Karl von Gebler's scholarly work, Galileo and Curia. I regret the lack of spac impossible an acknowledgement to authors, in whose works I have de preparing this book-if? Thanks for many valuable suggestions friend Charles H. Kerr, who ha flinchingly held that there is no emancipation of a proletariat 1 which is cobwebbed with delusior above all, I give cordial thanks te audience, whose generous appre year to year has made this and 1 volumes possible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Arthur M. (Arthur Morrow) B. 187 Lewis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2016-08-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781372284236 |
Author | : Arthur Morrow Lewis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Persecution |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert L. Park |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2008-09-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1400828775 |
Why the battle between superstition and science is far from over From uttering a prayer before boarding a plane, to exploring past lives through hypnosis, has superstition become pervasive in contemporary culture? Robert Park, the best-selling author of Voodoo Science, argues that it has. In Superstition, Park asks why people persist in superstitious convictions long after science has shown them to be ill-founded. He takes on supernatural beliefs from religion and the afterlife to New Age spiritualism and faith-based medical claims. He examines recent controversies and concludes that science is the only way we have of understanding the world. Park sides with the forces of reason in a world of continuing and, he fears, increasing superstition. Chapter by chapter, he explains how people too easily mistake pseudoscience for science. He discusses parapsychology, homeopathy, and acupuncture; he questions the existence of souls, the foundations of intelligent design, and the power of prayer; he asks for evidence of reincarnation and astral projections; and he challenges the idea of heaven. Throughout, he demonstrates how people's blind faith, and their confidence in suspect phenomena and remedies, are manipulated for political ends. Park shows that science prevails when people stop fooling themselves. Compelling and precise, Superstition takes no hostages in its quest to provoke. In shedding light on some very sensitive--and Park would say scientifically dubious--issues, the book is sure to spark discussion and controversy.
Author | : John Chynoweth Burnham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : |
John Burnham studies the history of changing patterns in the dissemination, or "popularization," of scientific findings to the general public since 1830. Focusing on three different areas of science -- health, psychology, and the natural sciences -- Burnham explores the ways in which this process of popularization has deteriorated. He draws on evidence ranging from early lyceum lecturers to the new math and argues that today popular science is the functional equivalent of superstition.
Author | : Samuel Eugene Stevens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Free thought |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jerry A. Coyne |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2016-05-17 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0143108263 |
“A superbly argued book.” —Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion The New York Times bestselling author of Why Evolution is True explains why any attempt to make religion compatible with science is doomed to fail In this provocative book, evolutionary biologist Jerry A. Coyne lays out in clear, dispassionate detail why the toolkit of science, based on reason and empirical study, is reliable, while that of religion—including faith, dogma, and revelation—leads to incorrect, untestable, or conflicting conclusions. Coyne is responding to a national climate in which more than half of Americans don’t believe in evolution, members of Congress deny global warming, and long-conquered childhood diseases are reappearing because of religious objections to inoculation, and he warns that religious prejudices in politics, education, medicine, and social policy are on the rise. Extending the bestselling works of Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens, he demolishes the claims of religion to provide verifiable “truth” by subjecting those claims to the same tests we use to establish truth in science. Coyne irrefutably demonstrates the grave harm—to individuals and to our planet—in mistaking faith for fact in making the most important decisions about the world we live in. Praise for Faith Versus Fact: “A profound and lovely book . . . showing that the honest doubts of science are better . . . than the false certainties of religion.” —Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith