The Scientist vs The Humanist
ed by George Levine
and Owen P. Thomas
W W Norton & Co; (June 1963)
This is a bit like a neurotic going into psychology -- to heal themselves.
That is by far the wordiest 'Evolution is a religion' claim I have ever read. I guess he needed to be that verbose to fit all his errors in.
The Scientist vs The Humanist
ed by George Levine
and Owen P. Thomas
W W Norton & Co; (June 1963)
Silber should stick to philosophy. He doesn't understand biology.
 "In 1655, the philosopher Thomas Hobbes claimed he had solved the centuries-old problem of "squaring of the circle" (constructing a square equal in area to a given circle). With a scathing rebuttal to Hobbes's claims, the mathematician John Wallis began one of the longest and most intense intellectual disputes of all time. Squaring the Circle is a detailed account of this controversy, from the core mathematics to the broader philosophical, political, and religious issues at stake. "Hobbes believed that by recasting geometry in a materialist mold, he could solve any geometric problem and thereby demonstrate the power of his materialist metaphysics. Wallis, a prominent Presbyterian divine as well as an eminent mathematician, refuted Hobbes's geometry as a means of discrediting his philosophy, which Wallis saw as a dangerous mix of atheism and pernicious political theory. "Hobbes and Wallis's "battle of the books" illuminates the intimate relationship between science and crucial seventeenth-century debates over the limits of sovereign power and the existence of God." |
Anyone read this? Does the author treat both sides with equal fairness? |
