... , "either Darwin's theory was true or the creation story in the book of Genesis was true. They could not both be true -(Glynn 3). This appearance of conflict is nothing new: Galileo faced it hundreds of years ago. To create this conflict, there must be two conflicting viewpoints. Essentially today in their purest form they are that either the world was created ... can be inferred from science, and staunchly holds to a literal translation of the creation story in genesis. Herein lies a conflict, but who here is being rational? Hundreds of years ago, Galileo was punished for his theory tha...

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... ] Each domain has its own distinctive questions, rules, and criteria of judgment. Gould discusses various historical cases in which religious leaders took dogmatic stands outside their field of competence, from Galileo to the Arkansas creationism trial. But he is equally critical of scientists who try to derive philosophical, theological, or ethical conclusions from science. He rejects the attempts of sociobiologists to ... ...

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