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Scott E. Hendrix
I wrote Gods, Philosophers, and Scientists: Religion and Science in the West, in large part as a response to the ideas and thoughts my students have presented in my course on the History and Philosophy of Science over the years. These thoughts have mirrored my own personal journey of understanding in many ways, because when I was young I thought there's a necessary conflict between religion and science and gravitated toward authors like Richard Dawkins. But a funny thing happened in grad school. The more I learned about the historical relationship between science and religion, the more I saw that these two ways of understanding have been complementary more often than in conflict. Furthermore, I came to see that the conflict thesis, as it's known, is rooted in cultural forces such as anti-immigration and anti-Catholic feelings in the 19th century. That was very interesting to me, which set me to digging even more.
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