{"product_id":"a-catholic-scientist-harmonizes-science-and-faith-by-dr-gerard-verschuuren","title":"A Catholic Scientist Harmonizes Science and Faith by Dr. Gerard Verschuuren","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eModernity, academia, and the media perceive and relentlessly advance a dichotomous, contradictory relationship between faith and science. However, from the time of Aristotle, it has been demonstrated that man is a rational being who reasons intellectually in a way that animals and technology cannot. Man is also a religious being, correlating himself to what is above and seeking answers to the ultimate questions of transcendence. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn his definitive book \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eScience and Faith\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Dr. Gerard Verschuuren draws from the reflections of St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Augustine, St. John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI, Dr. Peter Kreeft, and numerous scientists, such as Albert Einstein and Gregor Mendel, who reveal the essential connection between reason and religion. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDr. Verschuuren confirms the necessity of reasoning in scientific theory. Relying on true stories from scientific developments in medicine, astronomy, and physics, he asserts that the scientific method alone can’t explain the origins of the universe. By the same token, he decries blind faith and shows how science doesn’t threaten the Church. On the contrary: it confirms those truths that Christians have always believed. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThat is why the Father of Lies has always sought to pit faith against reason and science against revelation. Dr. Verschuuren explains how the progress of doubt, from agnosticism to atheism to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eantitheism\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, is not a result of increased scientific knowledge. Rather, it’s part of a diabolical attack on the Faith. The devil means to enthrone a new religion — scientism — in Christianity’s place. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis attack can be repelled only by true religion and real science working together, hand in hand, as they always have.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eClarifying the assumptions upon which science and religion are based, this cogent book reflects on how:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eauthentic reasoning inevitably leads us closer to God and belief in His attributes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eboth science and faith are guided by logic and deal with facts\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003efaith \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eneeds\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e science to avoid fideism, and science \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003erequires\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e belief\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe New Atheism, including the views of Stephen Hawking and Richard Dawkins,  is erroneous\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eour thoughts should be “controlled by reality” and objective truth\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChristianity helped produce modern scientific advancements\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethere is no “double truth” between evolution and faith and between the Big Bang theory and faith\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"SPRSS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39811796533334,"sku":"2845","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0747\/9959\/products\/ACatholicScientistHarmonizesScienceandFaithbyDr.GerardVerschuuren.jpg?v=1651175091","url":"https:\/\/oniquecatholicgifts.com\/products\/a-catholic-scientist-harmonizes-science-and-faith-by-dr-gerard-verschuuren","provider":"JMJs Catholic Store, Inc","version":"1.0","type":"link"}