A Catholic Scientist Harmonizes Science and Faith by Dr. Gerard M. Verschuuren. Sophia Institute Press (Manchester, NH, 2022). 208 pp., $18.95.
“We have made science our God.” These words of physicist Hendrik Casimir resound in our culture today.
Secular media presents a divide between faith and science, creating “spiritual amnesia.” They have forgotten the extent to which Christianity is responsible for modern scientific advancements.
In A Catholic Scientist Harmonizes Science and Faith, Dr. Verschuuren’s provides evidence for the link between faith and science. He has written several other books, including A Catholic Scientist Proves God Exists, How Science Points to God, A Catholic Scientists Champions the Shroud of Turin, and In the Beginning, which are also available from Sophia Press.
Fr. Jeffrey Langan, PhD, Senior Fellow of the Principium Institute, enthused, “This book is an excellent introduction to the philosophy of science. As a scientist, Verschuuren has an excellent capacity to describe science’s basic methods as well as its limits. The book also shows how philosophy and religion are actually useful in keeping science a grounded discipline.”
A Catholic Scientist Harmonizes Science and Faith explains the thought of Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Augustine, St. John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI, Dr. Peter Kreeft, and various scientists, such as Gregor Mendel and Albert Einstein.
Replete with true stories from scientific developments in medicine, astronomy, and physics, he asserts that even the hypothetico-deductive method alone isn’t conclusive. By the same token, he lays out Aquinas’ logic about the necessity for a First Cause for man’s existence.
Readers will find solid reasoning about:
- What assumptions science and religion are based upon
- Why blind faith isn’t the answer
- How science confirms the truths of our faith
- Why science is not the new religion
- How science and religion work together
Blaise Pascal said that within each of us is an “infinite abyss that can be filled only with an infinite and immutable object; in other words, by God himself” and wagered that we lose nothing by this belief.
Fr. Jeffrey Langan, PhD, continued, “Religion, and philosophy, especially in the Judeo-Christian tradition, actually make science possible in ways that might surprise many scientists. Find out yourself.”
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