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IT is a commonplace that all religions, even though their formularies and sacred books seem to guarantee absence of change, are constantly modified. Unless religion is moribund it is dynamic and not static. It is a living process within the spirit of man; and, as such, it is profoundly affected by the ideas and emotions of the community in which it exists. Religious thought and feeling alike are influenced, for good or ill, by contemporary political, social, and intellectual movements. During the last century there has been a movement of human thought as influential and as valuable as that of Renaissance humanism. The assumptions and methods of science have affected the whole outlook of educated men. In particular, those branches of science which are concerned with the domains of physics and biology have radically changed our conceptions both of the structure of the visible universe and of the development of life upon this earth.
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BARNES, C. The Influence of Science on Christianity. Nature 112, 477–478 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112477a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/112477a0