Science and God: A Warming Trend?

摘要

Keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings and oppositions of science falsely so called," the New Testament cautions in one of the Bible's rare references to science. This verse helped set the tone for 2000 years ofantagonism between scientific inquiry and spiritual conviction--a history of strife stretching from the religious persecution of Baruch Spinoza and Galileo Galilei through the 1860 boast by the biologist Thomas Huxley, the first popularizer of Darwinism, that "extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science, as strangled snakes beside that of Hercules."