{"id":99731,"date":"2026-06-05T11:44:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/?page_id=99731"},"modified":"2026-06-05T11:50:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:50:04","slug":"science-and-christianity-close-partners-or-mortal-enemies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/books-by-dave-armstrong\/science-and-christianity-close-partners-or-mortal-enemies","title":{"rendered":"Science and Christianity: Close Partners or Mortal Enemies?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
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Science and Christianity: Close Partners or Mortal Enemies?<\/div>\n
Dave Armstrong \u00a0\u00b7\u00a0 Oct. 2010, 301 pages<\/div>\n
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A 1,000-year reference defense of Christianity\u2019s role in the rise of modern science. Dave Armstrong catalogs **hundreds of prominent Christian, Catholic, and theistic scientists** from before Copernicus to after Einstein, lists 115 scientific fields they founded or extraordinarily advanced, and takes on the secular myths \u2014 Galileo, Lavoisier, Einstein\u2019s \u201ccosmic religion.\u201d<\/p>\n

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By its very nature, this work depends in great measure on the marvelous Internet links technology, in order to make instantly accessible, articles on any given scientific (and also mathematical and sometimes philosophical) matter or discovery. If readers want to know more about the particulars and technical details referred to in passing, then the many hundreds of links provided in this work will be quite convenient for that purpose. My own greatest interest lies in the areas of history of science and philosophy of science: and those are my own emphases in the book.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n

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Dedication (p.3)<\/p>\n

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1. Christianity\u2019s Central Role in the Conception and Development of Modern Science (p. 7) [read online<\/a>]<\/p>\n

2. Fertile Soil and Roots of Modern Science: 33 Prominent Christians Prior to 1000 A. D. With Empiricist, Proto-Scientific Views (p. 19)<\/p>\n

3. 59 Catholic Medieval and\/or Scholastic Proto-Scientists From 1000 to 1500 A. D (p. 37)<\/p>\n

4. 70 Catholic, Protestant and Otherwise Religious Prominent Scientists: 1500-1700 (From Copernicus to Steno, Boyle, and Ray) (p. 73)<\/p>\n

5. 36 Catholic, Protestant and Otherwise Religious Prominent Scientists: 1700-1800 (From Newton to Linnaeus, Boscovich, and Lavoisier) (p. 107)<\/p>\n

6. 41 Catholic, Protestant and Otherwise Religious Prominent Scientists: 1800-1850 (From Dalton to Humboldt, Cuvier, and Faraday) (p. 127)<\/p>\n

7. 56 Catholic, Protestant and Otherwise Religious Prominent Scientists: 1850-1900 (From Maxwell to Mendel, Pasteur, and Kelvin) (p.153)<\/p>\n

8. 31 Catholic, Protestant and Otherwise Religious Prominent Scientists: 1900-1950 (From Einstein to Planck, Eddington, and Lema\u00eetre) (p. 191)<\/p>\n

9. 115 Scientific Fields of Study Founded or Extraordinarily Advanced by Christian or Theistic Scientists \/ 34 Prominent Catholic Priest-Scientists and Mathematicians: 1500-1950 (p. 221) [read online<\/a>]<\/p>\n

10. Albert Einstein\u2019s \u201cCosmic Religion\u201d (p. 231) [read online<\/a>]<\/p>\n

11. The Galileo Case: Historical Facts and Neglected Considerations vs. Secular Revisionist Myths (p. 249)<\/p>\n

12. Galileo and Other Prominent 16th-17th Century Astronomers\u2019 Acceptance of Astrology (p. 257) [excerpts<\/a>]<\/p>\n

13. \u201cNo One\u2019s Perfect\u201d: Scientific Errors of Galileo and 16th-17th Century Cosmologies Rescued From Inexplicable Obscurity (p. 269) [read similar version<\/a>]<\/p>\n

14. The Execution of Antoine Lavoisier: the Great Catholic Scientist and \u201cFather of Chemistry\u201d by \u201cEnlightened\u201d French Revolutionaries (p. 275) [read online<\/a>]<\/p>\n

15. Christian Influence on Science: Master List of Scores of Bibliographical and Internet Resources (p. 285) [read online<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n

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