Reviews for The Science of Law According to the American Theory of Government

The average rating for The Science of Law According to the American Theory of Government based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-06-06 00:00:00 Jason Spiegel A great book in terms of the science, but Draper was a man of his time and was heavily influenced by a strong aversion to Catholicism, characteristic of 19th century anti-clericalism. His assertion that Catholics worship Mary is as wrong as to assert that Muslims worship Muhammad - neither believe they are gods and reserve that act of faith for God alone. He was also selective in his choice of examples, he failed to mention that the fathers of most scientific disciplines were themselves believers, and indeed, clerics/priests, eg Mendel, father of genetics, and that Darwin was an Anglican priest. He failed to account for the fact that the renaissance happened in catholic Italy and modernity in Christian Europe. He failed to mention the universities, schools, hospitals and early industries which were begun by the church out of which the later developments grew. He also failed to recognise that the actions of the laity of the church represents the church, not just the church clerics. In any case, the Church learned from its mistakes and it was a pity the author didn't live to see a Fr George Lemaitre formulate the Big Bang theory in the 20th century.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-06-11 00:00:00 Rickie Scott Good book. As a note: it's more of a history of the church and it's actions throughout the medieval periods to the present instead of the conflict between religion and science. However, what it does do is explain the overall suppression of knowledge and how it profited from it which is why and this how the book ties the two together. The loss of absolute power it used to have is more of the driving cause and why it goes after anything that it views as contrary to both minor and major dogma in the faith. I recommend it to anyone that would like a critical view of western religions as well as how different philosophical views affected religions and the conflicts that arose from it.