out that “study of the historical relations between science and religion does not reveal any simple pattern at all,”3 such as the monomyth of the “conflict” narrative. It does, however, disclose a “general trend”—that for most of the time, religion has facilitated scientific inquiry. There is no “right” or privileged way of understanding the relationship of Christianity—or any other religion—to the natural sciences. Instead, we find a rich range of possibilities, some of which are declared to be
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