Derek Peterson's Flat Earths and Fake Footnotes: The Strange Tale of How the Conflict of Science and Christianity was Written into History reads like a detective story ... on the interrelationships between science and Christian faith. Peterson exposes a range of myths about those interrelationships -- asking the important questions of who, what, where, when, and why we believe modern science and Christian faith are at odds with one another. In many ways, this detective story weaves and meanders down blind alleys to bring to light just how false these myths are, and how widespread they're believed in our culture.
Historians and philosophers of science have, over the past quarter century, begun to quietly leave those myths behind and tell the real story of the relationship between modern science and Christian faith. And Peterson does a masterful job bringing their work to light and exposing the myths of conflict for just what they are. Like a good detective, he ferrets out some important details that might easily go unnoticed or the connections unmade.
This is a masterful tale told by an amazing storyteller. It's written in a highly accessible style, so general audiences will find the book a good page-turner.
I cannot recommend Flat Earths and Fake Footnotes too highly!
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