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Article: Michael Faraday: Sandemanian and Scientist.
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- August 31, 1991
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IT HAS become common over the past century or so to think of science and religion as uneasy bedfellows, one trying to explain the universe through the application of reason, the other through the inspiration of faith. The images of Galileo in front of the inquisition or of "Soapy Sam" Wilberforce jeering at Darwin are brought forth in support. But there is a problem: both Galileo and Darwin were themselves religious, though to what degree is a matter of speculation. So were the vast majority of the scientists of their days. Even today, devout scientists are by no means rare.
To understand the cohabitation of science and religion there is nothing more revealing ...
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