popular notion of an intrinsic and perennial conflict. An ounce of scientific knowledge could be more effective in controlling the forces of nature than any amount of supplication. A second, quite different, view also appeals to history for its vindication. Science and religion are sometimes presented not as contending forces but as essentially complementary—each answering a different set of human needs. On this view, scientific and theological language have to be related to different spheres of
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