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November 21, 2012

Medieval Christianity: Key to Rise of Science

James Hannam, BioLogos Forum


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Readers of the Biologus Forum do not need to be told that the alleged conflict between science and religion is a myth. The conflict thesis was born in the salons of ancien régime France where philosophes like Voltaire and Jean le Rond d’Alembert used it as a weapon against the Catholic Church.

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TAGGED: science and religion, medieval, myths, Christianity, science history

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