Faith @ Science

Daniel M. Kolos is president of Benben Books, a company publishing
scholarly works.

Are creationists or Christians friends or foes of science? Rather than
answering this question, the author opts for a vague “legitimate
scientific inquiry” and goes on to examine the various branches of
technology (such as genetic engineering), the politics of the theory of
evolution, the powers of the human mind, and the ethics and politics of
land mines and abortion.

Claiming that “real science will not contradict biblical beliefs,”
O’Leary draws attention to a series of pseudo-sciences that have been
reprinted from 30 newspaper columns organized in five loose categories.
She makes statements and generalizations that do not stand up to
scrutiny. For example, she claims that “the pagan religions of Europe
finally died out in the 18th century,” ignoring the sudden appearance
in that century of the meso-pagan Freemasonic lodges whose rituals
closely resemble those of both the original pagans and the neopagans.
This lightly researched book fails to meet the goal set out by its
title: injecting a sense of morality into science.