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The Conflict between Religion and Science Widely speaking we regard science as the matter of reason; religion is a matter of faith. In science things can be proved. In religion we have to take things on authority. Keith Ward * Three Stages of religious thought and understanding. 1. Tribal religion, imaginary cosmologies, rituals. 2. The founding of the great scriptural (written) traditions - Holy texts which began to claim final and universal truth. 3. Developments since the 17th and 18th century, a new way of understanding God and the world. (Birth of modern science). Since the 17th and the 18th century the Christian faith in the world west has been transformed by three great movements of thought. 1. The rise of the natural sciences as epitomised by Galileo and his conflict with the Roman Catholic Church. Everyone knows that Galileo won the argument and the church was no longer contempt to disagree with all experimental...

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