Post by geremia on Apr 12, 2012 9:38:04 GMT
Thank you for writing the good popular account of the "continuity thesis" that Duhem advocated! I discovered your book in Ashley & Deely's 2012 How Science Enriches Theology pg. 27, which says:Note 46 says:
Have you read Stanley Jaki's The Savior of Science?
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Yet really it seems that the chief reason that many scientists, such as Weinberg, are so opposed to theism is that they fear it makes scientific research futile by explaining everything by a single explanation.46
A similar misreading of Aquinas' "proof from motion" is evidenced in Hannam's otherwise excellent book of 2009, God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science.
Have you read Stanley Jaki's The Savior of Science?
Also, you would enjoy all the resources I collected here.