New book presents evidence of ties between science, ethics
HOUSTON, TX (MMD Newswire) September 20, 2010 -- Galileo's Shadow by Werner Thurau seeks to explain how some of scientific determinism's assumptions, dominant in the Newtonian era, survived until quantum mechanics devised experiments in the 1970s to prove their errors.
According to Thurau's reasoning, these errors involve concepts of reality that can be traced back to Galileo. With that in mind, Thurau wrote the book in an effort to demonstrate how philosophers and scientists from Descartes to Einstein failed to recognize these fundamental errors in Galileo's reasoning, which led to the conviction that the only reality was purely physical.
Thurau argues that quantum mechanics has corrected some of these errors by showing that mankind is intimately intertwined with the natural world through sense perceptions and consciousness, but that a further step is now needed. This further step involves the reality of the origin of matter, which according to Thurau, physics has not been able to locate in our natural world ever since it became clear that this origin was not, after all, the atom. Thurau's argument is that the reality of this origin of matter and the reality of the natural world are not of the same kind, something he says philosophers have argued for centuries. Thurau says these arguments include concepts of subjective reality, which needs human presence, and concepts of objective reality, which is beyond sense perception. It is this argument about reality that Thurau says leads to the concepts capable of bridging the gap between science and faith, without invoking what he feels is the present controversy between creationism and evolutionary theory.
"Our modern age has been dominated by surprisingly stubborn, erroneous scientific ideas," says Thurau. "My book attempts to show a way in which science, mathematics, philosophy and belief can once more come together and reinforce the power of each individual discipline."
Thurau was inspired to write the book by what he perceives as an ever-increasing environmental crisis. To him, the separation of science and ethics has allowed scientific developments to move forward without thought of their far-reaching impact on society and the environment. In Galileo's Shadow, Thurau contends that a new union between science and ethics is possible and that only such a development can generate the impetus needed to address environmental destruction.
Galileo's Shadow is available for sale online at Amazon.com and other channels.
About the Author
Werner Thurau's life has been one of near-constant travel. He was born in Cuba in 1927 and lived in Berlin before moving to London in 1939. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of London and worked as an engineer on technical projects around the globe before emigrating to the U.S. in the 1970s. Thurau credits his father for surrounding him with the books and ideas that fostered a lifelong interest in the origins of science, philosophy and religion. Thurau is married with two daughters and resides in Houston.
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Phone: (713) 974-5049
Web: www.galileoshadow.com
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