An English churchman traces the long encounter between Christian belief and the new sciences, from Galileo’s trial and the Copernican universe through Newtonian mechanism and the shock of The Origin of Species to the philosophy of Henri Bergson. His thesis is that mankind, being incurably religious, keeps finding new ways to interpret the universe in spiritual terms.
A short, even-tempered survey from 1920 for readers interested in the history of the science-and-religion debate. Download the free EPUB.