Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life by Stephen Jay Gould

Author:Stephen Jay Gould [Gould, Stephen Jay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780345450401
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Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2011-07-20T05:00:00+00:00

From the measured tones of this statement, Draper descended into virulent anti-Catholicism and a near proclamation of war:

Will modern civilization consent to abandon the career of advancement which has given it so much power and happiness … Will it submit to the dictation of a power … which kept Europe in a stagnant condition for many centuries, ferociously suppressing by the stake and the sword every attempt at progress; a power that is founded in a cloud of mysteries; that sets itself above reason and common sense; that loudly proclaims the hatred it entertains against liberty of thought and freedom in civil institutions …

Then has it in truth come to this, that Roman Christianity and Science are recognized by their respective adherents as being absolutely incompatible; they cannot exist together; one must yield to the other; mankind must make its choice—it cannot have both.

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