Gould v. Huxley agnosticism

Skeptic | January 1, 1999| | Copyright

It was nice to see the Thomas Huxley observation at the end of Massimo Pigliucci's excellent article,"A Case Against God" in Vol. 6 No. 2, 1998, of SKEPTIC, because of his discussion of Stephen Jay Gould's article on "Nonoverlapping Magisteria" (NOMA) in Natural History Gould calls himself an "agnostic" and I am quite sure that Huxley would not have accepted Gould's NOMA. Instead, I think Huxley would have been in complete agreement with Pigliucci when he says "They [science and religion] both are a legitimate subject of rational investigation, and our best hope for a better society and human ...

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