Chapter 6 - The Necessity of Atheism
RELIGION AND SCIENCE Read also: the necessity of atheism david marshall brooks Science, then, commands our respect, not on the basis that its present assumptions and deductions are absolutely and for all time true, but on the ground that its method is for all time true—the method of discovery, the method of observation, research, experimentation, comparison, examination, testing, analysis and synthesis. Maynard Shipley, "The War on Modern Science." In the bare three and one-half centuries since modern science began, the churches had conducted an unremitting crusade against it. That much of this crusade had turned into a rear-guard action was due less to the weakness of the defenders of the faith than to the invulnerability of their non-resistant victim. Horace M. Kallen, "Why Religion?" Some sixty years ago in the "Dogmatic Constitution of the Catholic Faith ," the Church stated, "But never can reason be rendered capable of thoroughly under...