Holy Wars An Astrophysicist Ponders the God Question.

From: Skeptical Inquirer | Date: September 1, 2001| Author: TYSON, NEIL deGRASSE | Copyright information

A virtual sub-industry has blossomed to encourage harmony between science and religion, but there is virtually no common ground. When people have used religious documents to make detailed predictions about the physical world they have been famously wrong. Science, in contrast, works.

At nearly every public lecture that I give on the universe, I try to reserve adequate time at the end for questions. The succession of subjects is predictable. First, the questions relate di...

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