RE: Does Dark Matter give merit to the Bible?
March 19, 2015 at 7:33 am
(This post was last modified: March 19, 2015 at 7:37 am by Smaug.)
Speaking of science-religion interrelations, I have a popular astronomy book by an american astronomer O. M. Mitchell which covers the topics of history of astronomy and it's latest achievements. The book's name is something like "Celestial bodies: planetary and sidereal worlds". I don't know how exactly it's called in English because it's a 1868 Russian edition. This book has a vivid and highly-descriptive style with lots of fancy wording which is characteristic for those times as opposed to modern dry and facts-only style of such literature. And there are enaugh mentions of God and Creator when it comes to admiring the beauty and order of the Creation. Which reads somewhat unusual and funny today. Yet the book is fairly good when it comes to the history (including ancient times), modern facts, theories and known phenomena of those times and the way of describing and explaining them to the reader. Among the topics are Laplace hypothesis, Stability of Solar System, exasolar systems and galaxies, obtaining figure and approximate diameter of our Galaxy and other.