This book highlights the stark contrast between science as understood by Aquinas (and Aristotle) and modern science since Newton. Yet, most remain unaware of this shift in meaning.
Despite attempts to reconcile these views, modern philosophers often dismiss metaphysics, reducing Aristotle’s logic to a pseudo-logic aligned with empirical science. Sadly, Catholic scholars, including clergy, have been drawn into this mindset due to secular education’s dominance.
The basic cause for Catholics is the neglect of Aquinas’s works, despite repeated calls from the Church to study them. Influenced by secular peers, some Catholic academics are pressed to apologize for subordinating science to Faith. Paradoxically, it is modern scientists generally who embrace a radical scepticism and deny there is any scientific certainty or indisputable scientific proof.
Ryan Starrett was birthed and reared in Jackson, Mississippi. After receiving degrees from the University of Dallas, Adams State University and Spring Hill College, as well as spending a ten-year hiatus in Texas, he has returned home to continue his teaching career at his alma mater in Madison, Mississippi.