Praise for Flat Earths and Fake Footnotes: The Strange Tale of How the Conflict of Science and Christianity Was Written Into History
There are many books on whether or not there is a conflict between science and religion. There are only a few books on how such a conflict became imaginable in the first place. This is the best one. In three masterfully crafted sections, Derrick Peterson draws upon a century of scholarship across several disciplines which, collectively, demonstrate that our perception of conflict between science and religion is a historical idiosyncrasy. Especially for those who know what they are looking at, Peterson has truly consolidated a massive amount of scholarship between an affordable two covers … His endorsements come from some of the top intellectuals in the field, such as Peter Harrison and James Ungureanu. And if that were not enough, Peterson is an excellent and entertaining writer, converting a work of scholarly and interdisciplinary conversation into what reads like a detective novel full of the author’s own positive insights. —Review excerpt of FEFF from ...
