Religion and Science (Galaxy Books)

Description

"In this timely work, Russell, philosopher, agnostic, mathematician, and renowned peace advocate, offers a brief yet insightful study of the conflicts between science and traditional religion during the last four centuries. Examining accounts in which scientific advances clashed with Christian doctrine or biblical interpretations of the day, from Galileo and the Copernican Revolution, to the medical breakthroughs of anesthesia and inoculation, Russell points to the constant upheaval and reevaluation of our systems of belief throughout history. In turn, he identifies where similar debates between modern science and the Church still exist today. Michael Ruse's new introduction brings these conflicts between science and theology up to date, focusing on issues arising after World War II."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

RELIGION and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far back as we know anything of man's mental history, while the latter, after a fitful flickering existence among the Greeks and Arabs, suddenly sprang into importance in the sixteenth century, and has ever since increasingly moulded both the ideas and the institutions among which we live.

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Other Editions

• Religion and Science (Galaxy Books)Oxford University Press, USA1961-12-31
• Religion and science.Oxford University Press1935-01-01
• Religion and scienceHenry Holt1935-01-01
• Religion and scienceOxford University Press1935-01-01
• Religion and scienceH. Holt1935-01-01
• Religion and Science.Thornton Butterworth1935-01-01