I've been reading Whitehead's Science and the Modern World (1925), and the section on science and religion intrigues me. It is a powerful reminder that despite all of the "warfare" talk that we get constantly in the popular media and blogosphere, the truth is that of the many important thinkers that have contemplated this question, there is a far greater diversity and subtlety of views than is generally reflected in these limited venues. Take, for instance, Whitehead:
A mere logical contradiction cannot in itself point to more than the necessity of some readjustments, possibly of a very minor character on both sides. Remember the widely different aspects of events which are dealt with in science and in religion respectively. Science is concerned with the general conditions which are observed to regulate physical phenomena; whereas religion is wholly wrapped up in the contemplation of moral and aesthetic values. On the one ...
