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Differing worldviews

Magisteria

The Entangled Histories of Science and Religion

Nicholas Spencer

One World 2023

Hb, 528pp, £25, ISBN 9780861544615

Many people today share the view of the distinguished American scientist Stephen Jay Gould that science and religion are two “non-overlapping Magisteria”.

In other words, two entirely separate ways of studying and thinking about the world.

In his book Nicholas Spencer sets about mythbusting and tracing the roots of modern science, through an entangled history

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