Enlightenment philosophy and liberal theology, the current battle over Darwinism seemed to confirm that traditional theology inevitably deters scientific progress. The works of Draper and White powerfully catalyzed the mutual hostility theme into Western culture. The two “screaming titles … were to thunder through the decades, remaining audible more than a century later.”12 Proclamations of Christianity’s serious threat to science resound today especially through the popular works of the New Atheists
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