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.
Kenneth Francis is a freelance journalist and Contributing Editor at New English Review. For the past 30 years, he has worked as an editor in various publications and print media, as well as a university professor in journalism. He also holds an MA in Theology and is the author of The Little Book of God, Mind, Cosmos and Truth (St Pauls Publishing); The Terror of Existence: From Ecclesiastes to Theatre of the Absurd (with Theodore Dalrymple); and Neither Trumpets Nor Violins (with Theodore Dalrymple and Samuel Hux).
Christopher M. Reilly, Th.D. is a scholar and speaker who holds graduate degrees in theology, philosophy, and public affairs. He is author of numerous academic and general articles on a Christian response to advanced technology, bioethics, and moral theology. Chris lives in the greater Washington, D.C. region. He can be contacted at 
Dr. Charles Robertson earned his MA in History at the University of Saskatchewan and his MA and Ph.D. in Philosophy at the Center for Thomistic Studies in Houston, Texas. His research on embryo adoption/rescue has been published in The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, The Thomist, The Linacre Quarterly, and the Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly. He has also published research on the history of the Thomist commentary tradition in Nova et Vetera and The Oxford Handbook of the Reception of Aquinas. He currently resides in Saskatoon, Canada, with his wife and eight children.
