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How could you attack the view that science and religion have always been at war?
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How could you attack the view that science and religion have always been at war? Faith is stationary, science progressive. Therefore motionless faith and moving knowledge are constantly at war.1 The view that science and religion have been in conflict throughout history is one that has prevailed for much of the last century. The notion of a `mysterious undefined ghost called Science against a mysterious indefinable ghost called Religion'2 has for many been a clear summary of the relationship between these two realms of authority. Even today, in popular culture, the mention of science and its interactions with religion, is likely to conjure up images of antagonism, a relationship epitomised by the conflict between Galileo's reason and unrelenting Papal authority. Before dismantling the warfare thesis, a question that the historian must ask is how this model of conflict has been constructed. The two key texts that first gave rise to the notion of...
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