Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-284) and index.

1. That the rise of Christianity was responsible for the demise of ancient science / David C. Lindberg -- 2. That the medieval Christian church suppressed the growth of science / Michael H. Shank -- 3. That medieval Christians taught that the earth was flat / Lesley B. Cormack -- 4. That medieval Islamic culture was inhospitable to science / Syed Nomanul Haq -- 5. That the medieval church prohibited human dissection / Katharine Park -- 6. That Copernicanism demoted humans from the center of the cosmos / Dennis R. Danielson -- 7. That Giordano Bruno was the first martyr of modern science / Jole Shackelford -- 8.That Galileo was imprisoned and tortured for advocating Copernicanism / Maurice A. Finocchiaro -- 9. That Christianity gave birth to modern science / Noah J. Efron -- 10.That the scienfitic revolution liberated science from religion / Margaret J. Osler -- 11. That Catholics did not contribute to the scientific revolution / Lawrence M. Principe -- 12. That Rene Descartes originated the mind-body distinction / Peter Harrison -- 13. That Isaac Newton's mechanistic cosmology eliminated the need for God / Edward B. Davis -- 14. That the church denounced anesthesia in childbirth on biblical grounds / Rennie B. Schoepflin -- 15.That the theory of organic evolution is based on circular reasoning / Nicolaas A. Rupke -- 16.That evolution destroyed Darwin's faith in Christianity : until he reconverted on his deathbed / James Moore -- 17.That Huxley defeated Wilberforce in their debate over evolution and religion / David N. Livingstone -- 18. That Darwin destroyed natural theology / Jon H. Roberts -- 19.That Darwin and Haeckel were complicit in Nazi biology / Robert J. Richards -- 20. That the Scopes trial ended in defeat for antievolutionism / Edward J. Larson -- 21. That Einstein believed in a personal God / Matthew Stanley -- 22. That Quantum physics demonstrated the doctrine of free will / Daniel Patrick Thurs -- 23. That "intelligent design" represents a scientific challenge to evolution / Michael Ruse -- 24. That creationism is a uniquely American phenomenon / Ronald L. Numbers -- 25.That modern science has secularized Western culture / John Hedley Brooke.

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