Today we're delighted to interview author Frederick Seiler, author of God Vs Nature, an overview of the historical conflict between reason and faith. Between science and religion. Let it be noted that this book is different in that it uses Ayn Rand's epistemology to make the case that yes, there is a conflict and that we in the West are losing our freedom's due to the lingering poison of religion in the hysterically non-rational movement known as Environmentalism. If you are even remotely interested in history, or philosophy, Buy This Book.
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Show notes with links to articles, blog posts, products and services:
- God Versus Nature: The Conflict Between Religion and Science in History
- Seiler on Science
- History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science
- A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
- Conflict thesis
- The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason
- The Aristotle Adventure: A Guide to the Greek, Arabic, & Latin Scholars Who Transmitted Aristotle's Logic to the Renaissance
- al-Ghazali
- Thomas Aquinas
- Galileo affair
- Francis Bacon
- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
- Robert Chambers
- Natural selection
- Intelligent design and science
- Creationism
- Rodney Stark
- Primacy of Existence vs. Primacy of Consciousness
Episode 77 (60 minutes) was recorded at 2100 Central European Time, on November 2, 2023, with Ringr app. Martin did the editing and post-production with the podcast maker, Alitu. The transcript is generated by Alitu.
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