Great Scientists 3-In-1 Bundle

by Mitch Stokes, John R. Perry

It s true. George Washington Carver discovered 145 uses for the peanut. Perhaps you recall being amazed when you learned that in grade school. Or maybe you recall his association with Booker T. Washington or the famed Tuskegee Institute. Yet Carver s life yielded much more. Born into slavery and burdened with the racial injustices of his time, he quietly allowed his actions, not his words, to demonstrate his equality.

It s no mystery how profound a role Galileo Galilei played in the Scientific Revolution. Less explored is the Italian innovator s sincere, guiding faith in God. Mitch Stokes confronts the myth that Galileo s stance on heliocentricity stood astride a church vs. science divide and explores his calculations for the dimensions of Dante s hell, his understanding of motion, and his invention of the pendulum clock.

As an inventor, astronomer, physicist, and philosopher, Isaac Newton forever changed the way we see and understand the world. At one point, he was the world s leading authority in mathematics, optics, and alchemy. Surprisingly he wrote more about faith and religion than on all of these subjects combined. Newton saw the world not as a way to refute theology, but as a way to explain it."

592 pages, ebook

First published February 5, 2012

About the author

Dr. Stokes received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Florida in 1992 and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Central Florida in 1994. While serving as an advanced and senior engineer in Florida in the 1990s, Dr. Stokes took theological courses at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando. He went on to complete an M.A. in Religion (Philosophy of Religion) at Yale University under Dr. Nick Wolterstorff in 2001 and an M.A. in Philosophy at University of Notre Dame in 2003. He completed his doctoral studies in Philosophy at Notre Dame under Dr.Alvin Plantinga and Dr. Peter van Inwagen in 2005, prior to joining the New Saint Andrews faculty.