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Is Man the Measure? An Evaluation of Contemporary Humanism is unavailable, but you can change that!

An academically respectable description and evaluation of secular humanism is available at last. The diversity within humanism receives full recognition in this book, as does the fact that “not everything about humanism is bad from a Christian point of view.” Indeed, the author continues, “there are many emphases within humanism that are compatible with Christian beliefs,” a thesis to which he...

Joseph Lister (1827–1912) Antiseptic surgery James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879) Electrodynamics, statistical thermodynamics William Ramsay (1852–1916) Isotopic chemistry In general, scientists before 1860 tended to be creationists. Sir Isaac Newton’s statement about the origin of the universe is typical: This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. And if the fixed stars are the centres of other like
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