RT Article
T1 Religion and Science in an Advanced Scientific Culture
JF Zygon
VO 22
IS 2
SP 165
OP 178
A1 Gilkey, Langdon 1919-2004
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 1987
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1827947845
AB Abstract. These are reflections on the Arkansas creationist trial by a witness for the American Civil Liberties Union. The following points are stressed: First, religion took the lead in defending science at the trial. Second, the appearance of creation science is a function not only of Protestant fudamentalism but also of the establishment of science in our wider culture. It represents a “deviant science” in such a culture. Third, our century has manifested many such bizarre unions of ideological religion and modern science. This shows that science is dependent upon its humanistic, moral, and religious matrix for its social and historical health. Fourth, part of the cause of the rise of creation science has been the power, status, and self–assurance of science that it represents “the only form of truth.” Fifth, religion in turn tends both to increase and to become fanatical in advanced and precarious cultures; religion, therefore, needs rational and moral criticism if it would help in the creation of social health.
K1 proximate versus ultimate origins
K1 “popular science”
K1 logical limits of science
K1 establishment of science
K1 dependence of science 011 the humanities
K1 Creation Science
DO 10.1111/j.1467-9744.1987.tb00844.x