Site Organization
This site presents a critical view of the "conflict" hypothesis which assumes that the church and science are inherently opposed. It does not provide a complete treatment of the history of science and the church since that would require thousands of pages. Hopefully, it will help broaden the discussion by including more disciplines, a greater span of history, and discussions of scientific practice. So many of the discussions focus almost entirely on one discipline, cosmology, that represents less than 1% of modern scientific activity. They also seem to concentrate on events over a 40 year period in the seventeenth century, ignoring most of the rest of history. The elements of scientific practice in these discussions are either ignored or treated as an afterthought.
This site is an e-book organized around 6 sections. Although there are many articles, most of the articles stem off the theme articles. Science:Beyond Method and Modern Times discusses the actual workings of science as a background to discussing Science and the Church. Cooking History discusses how complete eras in history and some very important scientific developments are ignored. Fathers of the Telescope discusses the important role that church scientists played in the development of the telescope. The Galileo Soundbite looks at the Galileo incident as a soundbite and provides a wider view of the incident by looking at related events that occurred before, during and after Galileo's life. Finally, Duhem:The DaVinci Code discusses bias and censorship amongst historians, focusing on the censorship of Pierre Duhem. This site also has a Telescope Timeline and a Classical Mechanics Timeline. This site is a work in progress. More articles and perhaps more themes may be added in the future. Feedback is appreciated and can be emailed here.