Talk:A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom

Peace. I'm surprised there isn't any discussion about this page. Students should know this is not a reliable historical reference work, especially the account of Christopher Columbus. (Stark, 2003; 122)Jplvnv (talk) 04:10, 26 November 2016 (UTC)jplvnv
 * Agreed, but you'll have to cite sources on that. Will have to study the book thoroughly, but quite some writers in that slant are ignorant about the origins of science from Christian Philosophy. --105.4.6.111 (talk) 00:11, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Ronald Numbers
This article previously described leading historian of science Ronald Numbers as "Historian of science and the son of a Seventh-day Adventist preacher (but currently a self-identifying agnostic)". This is absurd. The fact his father was a "Seventh-day Adventist preacher" has no relevance here and the phrasing " a self-identifying agnostic" is strange and seems to be casting some doubt on the sincerity of his position, implying ("curently") that it is somehow uncertain. I've removed this weird phrasing and replaced it with the more accurate description of "historian of science and agnostic".

Flat Earth
"the idea that before Columbus people thought that the world was flat. Well, in fact, it is Draper and White, specifically, both of them, who bear most of the blame for popularizing this baseless view to the extent that nowadays, 80 percent of school teachers still foist this upon poor innocent school children. The fact is that of course the sphericity of the Earth was well established by the fifth century BC by the Greeks, and a good measure of its circumference made by the third century BC. And these facts were never forgotten in learned Western Culture."

This is very idiotic. First, there is no proof presented that the results of the Greeks were never forgotten. Second, there is no proof and seems to be utterly rubbish that if 2-3 scholars in the Middle Ages maybe knew the results of the Greeks, then people in general knew it. It is utterly idiotic to claim that most of the people knew in the Middle Ages that the Earth is spherical. Nonsense. Idiotic nonsense. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.60.175.123 (talk) 07:37, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

If it is true that, more than 120 years after the publication of White's book, '80 per cent of school teachers still foist this [idea] upon .... school children', it is more an indictment of the American education system and the ignorance of school teachers than of 'A History of the Warfare of Science etc.'