Reviews for Solving common sexual problems

The average rating for Solving common sexual problems based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-07-24 00:00:00 Sebastian Zapata We constantly hear leading physicists, men such as Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan, and Neil deGrasse Tyson, declare that God, theology, and religion are worthless given the wealth of knowledge and enlightenment opened by modern science. Is this true though? Not at all, argues Oxford physicist and devout Roman Catholic Peter Hodgson. In fact, it is quite the other way around. The Judeo-Christian worldview, in which there is an intelligible reality created by God, a world that is contingent and therefore needing of explanation, and a world where using the language of Genesis 1, matter is good and a thing to be investigated, set the preconditions for modern science to be developed. This is why under the Abrahamic faiths, science flourished. Medieval Islamic thinkers made numerous advances in mathematics, medicine, and astronomy. In Europe, after a thousand years of flourishing philosophical discourse in the Middle Ages, modern science is founded with the revolution of Copernicus followed by the mechanical understanding of nature and empirical method of Galileo and Newton. However, as Hodgson puts it so beautifully: the methodological limitation brought about by the method of scientific investigation as a purely empirical study was mistaken for an ontological conclusion, as if due to the fact that God is not empirically verifiable, He is a silly hypothesis. However, as I believe Hodgson correctly argues, the foundation of this method alone was based off the Judeo-Christian view of creation and the world. Therefore, science in some ways began to get away from its roots. Not entirely though, as Hodgson points out many physicists from Maxwell to Planck to Einstein rejected the positivist worldview, but still fell within a general historical current that gave science a completely unjustified ontological conclusion. Hodgson takes on the challenges then of many of the views that physicists believe refutes God. Quantum mechanics, various cosmologies, chaos theory, and even the Theory of Relativity are all addressed. While I still am not an expert on any of these theories, Hodgson does a pretty good job of showing that even while these completely valid scientific concepts can produce some wacky results, they do not counter with the views held by traditional metaphysicians and theologians. Overall, a great book that I would recommend to skeptic and believer alike. Believers often feel themselves on the wrong side of science and this is an absurd proposition we must eliminate. Skeptics often feel that science has disproved God. Also not true and an absurd proposition to be eliminated. The God question, while aided by the inquiries of natural science, can now return to the battlegrounds of philosophy and religion, where it belongs.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-06-13 00:00:00 Paul Nugent A thoroughly excellent discussion of the relationship between Modern Physics and Christian theology. I appreciated the discussion of the many advances achieved during 'The Muslim Centuries' and why this burgeoning science came to a stuttering halt. The chapters on Quantum Physics were particularly insightful. Hodgson does not shy away from equations, which quite probably restricts the likely readership, but I was glad to see them - they were helpful throughout. Overall a wonderfully serious take on the complex interactions between physics and theology.