b'imposing a tyranny of ignorance and superstitionJohns Hopkins University historian of science that perverted and crushed true science. 12 Lawrence Principe likewise says that the historical White, too, was annoyed with the Christianformulation of Draper and White rests on veryNavigate Science & the Biblechurch, but for diff erent reasons. He was provokedshaky (and sometimes fabricated) foundations to write because of criticism he received forand was contrived largely for quite specifi c establishing Cornell University without a religiouspolitical, professional, and racist purposes affiliation. Beyond this, Whites Cornell wasSerious modern historians of science have unanimously dismissed the warfare model competing with religiously affiliated collegesas an adequate historical description. 14 nto get money from Congress; thus he had to make a historical case to show why religionJoshua M. Moritz is a lecturer of philosophical and the natural sciences shouldnt mix. theology and natural science at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley and an adjunct professor What do historians of science make of theof philosophy at the University of San Francisco.confl ict thesis that science and religion have been in a perpetual state of warfare? University ofThis article is an excerpt from Science Wisconsin historians of science David Lindbergand Religion: Beyond Warfare and Ronald Numbers explain that recentand Toward Understanding, by scholarship has shown the warfare metaphor toJoshua Moritz (2016). Winona, be neither useful nor tenable in describing theMN: Anselm Academic.relationship between science and religion. 13This article will continue in a future issue ofAspire.DOWNLOAD THIS FOR YOUR CLASS TO READ: SMP.ORG/ASPIREVOL11.Oxford historian John Hedley Brooke makes a case for what he labels the complexity thesis to describe the historical relationship between science and religion. See Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991). Historian James Hannam describes the relationship as one of creative tension. See James Hannam, Th e Genesis of Science: How the Christian Middle Ages Launched the Scientifi c Revolution (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 2011).2.Dan Brown, Angels and Demons (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000), 31.3.For a reference to popes banning vaccination and dissection, see the college textbook by Emily Jackson, Medical Law: Text, Cases, and Materials(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 7. For a reference to Bruno being burnt at the stake for his science, see the popular college textbook by Louis P. Pojman, Philosophy of Religion (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001), 147. For a discussion on why these are all myths, see Ronald L. Numbers, ed., Galileo Goes to Jail, and Other Myths about Science and Religion (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009).4.For an in-depth discussion of why such stories are unfounded see Hannam, Genesis of Science; and Numbers, ed., Galileo Goes to Jail.5.Thomas Dixon, Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), 9. 6.See ibid., 1112.7.See Peter Harrison, Religion, the Royal Society, and the Rise of Science, Th eology and Science 6, no. 3 (2008): 25571.8.Quoted in Richard G. Olson, Science and Religion, 14501900: From Copernicus to Darwin (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006), 204.9.Timothy Larsen, War Is Over, If You Want It: Beyond the Confl ict between Faith and Science, Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 60, no. 3 (September 2008): 14950. As Larsen says, Huxley and others who aspired to turn scientifi c pursuits into a profession . . . needed a war between science and religion.10.See Ruth Barton, An Infl uential Set of Chaps: The X-Club and Royal Society Politics 186485, British Journal for the History of Science 23, no. 1 (March 1990): 5381.11.Peter Harrison, Science and Religion: Constructing the Boundaries, in Science and Religion: New Historical Perspectives, ed. Thomas Dixon, Geoff rey Cantor, and Stephen Pumfrey (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 27. 12.Quoted in David Lindberg and Ronald Numbers, eds., God and Nature: Historical Essays on the Encounter between Christianity and Science (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986), 3. 13.David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers, Beyond War and Peace: A Reappraisal of the Encounter between Christianity and Science, Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 39, no. 3 (September 1987): 14049, at 141.14.Lawrence Principe, The Warfare Thesis, Science and Religion, recorded lecture (Chantilly, VA: The Teaching Company, 2006).34 AspireVolume 1//Fall 2019 Subscribe today!smp.org/aspire'