James C. Ungureanu

Flat Earths and Fake Footnotes

Science & Faith

“Derrick Peterson is seeking to wake us from our dogmatic slumbers. Historians of science, scholars of religion, and theologians often plough separate furrows, paying little attention to each other’s work. But in Flat Earths and Fake Footnotes, Peterson has brought them all into conversation, condensing a truly vast amount of scholarship. He has shown, moreover, that scholars ignore each other at their own peril. Despite over a hundred years of scholarship debunking the so-called ‘conflict thesis,’ the idea that science and religion are at war, perceptions of conflict persist. The only way forward from our scholarly impasse is to combine these fields of scholarship to paint a more comprehensive picture of what is going on. Impeccably researched and thoroughly readable, Peterson offers the reader a tour de force of the best research in the history of science, religion, and theology.”