Book excerpt: Modernity, academia, and the media perceive and relentlessly advance a dichotomous, contradictory relationship between faith and science. However, from the time of Aristotle, it has been demonstrated that man is a rational being who reasons intellectually in a way that animals and technology cannot. Man is also a religious being, correlating himself to what is above and seeking answers to the ultimate questions of transcendence. In this definitive book on the subject, Dr. Gerard Verschuuren draws from the reflections of St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Augustine, St. John Paul II, Dr. Perer Kreeft, and such scientists as Albert Einstein and Gregor Mendel to reveal the essential connection between reason and religion. Dr. Verschuuren confirms the necessity of reasoning in scientific theory. Relying on true stories from scientific developments in medicine, astronomy, and physics, he asserts that the scientific method alone can't explain the origins of the universe. By the same token, he decries blind faith and shows how science doesn't threaten the Church. On the contrary: it confirms those truths that Christians have always believed- which is why the Father of Lies has always sought to pit faith against reason and science against revelation. Clarifying the assumptions upon which science and religion are based, this cogent book reflects on how: Authentic reasoning inevitably leads us closer to God and belief in His attributes, Christianity helped produce modern scientific advancements, The New Atheism, including the views of Stephen Hawking and Richard Dawkins, is erroneous, Faith needs science to avoid fideism, and science requires belief Book jacket.