HOME  INTERVIEWS  RESOURCES  NEWS  ABOUT

View by:  Subject  Theme  Question  Term  Person  Event

1. Exposing the ‘Conflict’ Myth

Careful work by a number of historians has now discredited the frequent claim that the relation between science and religion throughout the 19th and 20th centuries was strictly one of ‘warfare’ or ‘conflict’. As Claude Welch points out,Claude Welch, "Dispelling Some Myths About the Split Between Theology and Science in the Nineteenth Century," in Religion and Science: History, Method, Dialogue, ed. W. Mark Richardson and Wesley...the conflict language was inspired in part by the titles of two widely influential booksJohn William Draper, History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science (London and New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1874); Andrew Dickson White, A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in...: John Draper’s History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science and Andrew Dickson White’s A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom Apparently the main target of these books was the institutional church, particularly responses to Pope Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors of 1864. Instead, as Welch argues, there were at least three kinds of response to science in the 19th century: along with “opposition” (e.g., Charles Hodge, Edward Cardinal Manning) there was “cautious mediation” or ‘accomodation’ (e.g., F. D. Maurice, Charles Kingsley, James McCosh, Benjamin B. Warfield, Frederick Temple) and the “exaltation of evolution” or ‘assimilation’ (e.g., Lux Mundi authors such as Audrey Moore, J. R. Illingworth, Henry Ward Beecher, Henry Drummond).

Contributed by: Dr. Robert Russell

Topic Sets Available

AAAS Report on Stem-Cells

AstroTheology: Religious Reflections on Extraterrestrial Life Forms

Agency: Human, Robotic and Divine
Becoming Human: Brain, Mind, Emergence
Big Bang Cosmology and Theology (GHC)
Cosmic Questions Interviews

Cosmos and Creator
Creativity, Spirituality and Computing Technologies
CTNS Content Home
Darwin: A Friend to Religion?
Demystifying Information Technology
Divine Action (GHC)
Dreams and Dreaming: Neuroscientific and Religious Visions'
E. Coli at the No Free Lunchroom
Engaging Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence: An Adventure in Astro-Ethics
Evangelical Atheism: a response to Richard Dawkins
Ecology and Christian Theology
Evolution: What Should We Teach Our Children in Our Schools?
Evolution and Providence
Evolution and Creation Survey
Evolution and Theology (GHC)
Evolution, Creation, and Semiotics

The Expelled Controversy
Faith and Reason: An Introduction
Faith in the Future: Religion, Aging, and Healthcare in the 21st Century

Francisco Ayala on Evolution

From Christian Passions to Scientific Emotions
Genetic Engineering and Food

Genetics and Ethics
Genetic Technologies - the Radical Revision of Human Existence and the Natural World

Genomics, Nanotechnology and Robotics
Getting Mind out of Meat
God and Creation: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Perspectives on Big Bang Cosmology
God, Humanity and the Cosmos: A Textbook in Science and Religion
God the Spirit - and Natural Science
Historical Examples of the Science and Religion Debate (GHC)
History of Creationism
Intelligent Design Coming Clean

Issues for the Millennium: Cloning and Genetic Technologies
Jean Vanier of L'Arche
Nano-Technology and Nano-ethics
Natural Science and Christian Theology - A Select Bibliography
Neuroscience and the Soul
Outlines of the Science and Religion Debate (GHC)

Perspectives on Evolution

Physics and Theology
Quantum Mechanics and Theology (GHC)
Questions that Shape Our Future
Reductionism (GHC)
Reintroducing Teleology Into Science
Science and Suffering

Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action (CTNS/Vatican Series)

Space Exploration and Positive Stewardship

Stem-Cell Debate: Ethical Questions
Stem-Cell Ethics: A Theological Brief

Stem-Cell Questions
Theistic Evolution: A Christian Alternative to Atheism, Creationism, and Intelligent Design...
Theology and Science: Current Issues and Future Directions
Unscientific America: How science illiteracy threatens our future
Will ET End Religion?

Current Stats: topics: >2600, links: >300,000, video: 200 hours.