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Most people believe that science arose as a natural end-product of our innate intelligence and curiosity, as an inevitable stage in human intellectual development. But physicist and educator Alan Cromer disputes this belief. Cromer argues that science is not the natural unfolding of human potential, but the invention of a particular culture, Greece, in a particular historical period. Indeed, far from being natural, scientific thinking goes so far against the grain of conventional human thought that if it hadn't been discovered in Greece, it might not have been discovered at all. In Uncommon Se Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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The author builds a healthy respect for how much scientific views depend on the collective efforts of the past. He is not a relativist: scientific knowledge is a certain type of consensus painstakingly built around informed opinion about a reality that is outside of human beings.
From the layperson's standpoint the book is clearly written and argued, uses appropriate and illuminating examples, and is not overly technical. It is a helpful resource in the science-religion debates. ( )