Abstract
A RIGHT understanding of the causes and history of the conflict between modern science and the Christian religion is of primary importance for sociology to-day. It seems self-evident that scientific development has outrun ethical progress, and the consequences of this may be disastrous, though the situation admits of no simple remedy. The trouble is that though science can get along well enough in isolation from metaphysics, this is not equally the case with ethics, which seems to require for stability some sort of religious or philosophical background. The traditional European ethic has hitherto been based upon the Christian religion, and the decay of faith in that religion has been accompanied by signs of decay in the associated ethic.
Religion and Science
A Diagnosis. By the Rev. Dr. Charles E. Raven. (L. T. Hobhouse Memorial Trust Lecture No. 16, delivered on 1 May, 1946, at Bedford College.) Pp. 16. (Oxford : At the University Press, 1946.) 2s. net.
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HARDWICK, J. Religion and Science. Nature 159, 145–146 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159145a0
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