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Huxley vs. Wilberforce: What You Don’t Know

Published on June 11, 2023 By sirrahc

“Reports from the time suggest that everybody enjoyed themselves immensely, and all went cheerfully off to dinner together afterwards.” — Michael Ruse, philosopher of science, commenting on the Huxley vs. Wilberforce debate As regular readers will remember, roughly a month ago I did a post about the infamous “conflict thesis” of science vs. religion. The […]

Galileo vs. the Roman Catholic Church: What You Don’t Know

Published on May 14, 2023 By sirrahc

“The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order which has been imposed on it by God, and which he revealed to us in the language of mathematics.” — Johannes Kepler, 16th/17th-century mathematician and astronomer, known for his Laws of Planetary Motion If you are at all […]