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Where did the idea of warfare between science and faith come from? [1]

Ian Hutchinson explains one of the sources behind the idea that there is a warfare between science and religion. The historian Andrew Dickson White wrote a very influential book about conflict between science and Christianity. He did this essentially to argue that higher education should be secular (and he also co-founded Cornell University, the first secular private university in the USA).

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