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| rdfs:label | - Are science and religion at war?
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| rdfs:comment | - Science and Christianity are often depicted as mortal enemies. After all, the Christian church taught for centuries that the earth was flat, and did everything in its power to stifle scientific development... didn't it? In fact, the conflict thesis is a narrow view of the history of science and religion, and is rejected by the majority of modern historians. As historian Gary Ferngren writes,
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| abstract | - Science and Christianity are often depicted as mortal enemies. After all, the Christian church taught for centuries that the earth was flat, and did everything in its power to stifle scientific development... didn't it? In fact, the conflict thesis is a narrow view of the history of science and religion, and is rejected by the majority of modern historians. As historian Gary Ferngren writes, While some historians had always regarded the Draper-White [conflict] thesis as oversimplifying and distorting a complex relationship, in the late twentieth century it underwent a more systematic reevaluation. The result is the growing recognition among historians of science that the relationship of religion and science has been much more positive than is sometimes thought. Although popular images of controversy continue to exemplify the supposed hostility of Christianity to new scientific theories, studies have shown that Christianity has often nurtured and encouraged scientific endeavour, while at other times the two have co-existed without either tension or attempts at harmonization. If Galileo and the Scopes trial come to mind as examples of conflict, they were the exceptions rather than the rule.
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