In a Faraday Institute public lecture, to be delivered in Cambridge this week, Peter Harrison, Andreas Idreos professor of science and religion at the University of Oxford, will challenge such arguments about the impossibility of being both scientific and religious, pointing out that they “obviously didn’t apply to the earliest fellows”.
“What tends to happen is that current controversies, and particularly anti-evolutionary movements, are seen to typify religion and then read back into history,” he said.
“People want to claim the early Royal Society for whatever they stand for, whether religion, ‘Enlightenment values’ or scientism.”
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Matthew Reisz–Faith and science were once friendlier bedfellows
In a Faraday Institute public lecture, to be delivered in Cambridge this week, Peter Harrison, Andreas Idreos professor of science and religion at the University of Oxford, will challenge such arguments about the impossibility of being both scientific and religious, pointing out that they “obviously didn’t apply to the earliest fellows”.
“What tends to happen is that current controversies, and particularly anti-evolutionary movements, are seen to typify religion and then read back into history,” he said.
“People want to claim the early Royal Society for whatever they stand for, whether religion, ‘Enlightenment values’ or scientism.”
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