When Science Goes Wrong by Guy Consolmagno, Christopher M. Gr... - 9780809156641

Paulist Press International,U.S.

When Science Goes WrongThe Desire and Search for Truth\nAuthor(s): Guy Consolmagno, Christopher M. Graney\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Paulist Press International,U.S., United States\nImprint: Paulist Press International,U.S.\nISBN-13: 9780809156641, 978-0809156641\nSynopsis\nThe science/faith discussion is often hindered by a fundamental misunderstanding of the role and function of science. This misunderstand was made most evident, with tragic consequences, during the recent pandemic. The ways that science has gone wrong, and the underlying causes of how it goes wrong, will be illustrated here with a series of historical essays describing ideas about the universe, planet Earth, and the evolution of life that were all based on ideas that were reasonablebut ultimately wrong. Some are amusing in retrospect; others are tragic.\n\nTheology, philosophy, or even mathematics may lay claim to eternal truths, but in science our very cosmologies change. Just as the major religions have adapt.