The Cult of Dawkins: Science as Religion

Prior to the late eighteenth century, a majority of those involved in the rise of the natural sciences were individuals with sincere religious convictions.[1] Their new approaches to science were underpinned in various ways to religious assumptions, particularly grounded in a Christian understanding of an ordered universe. As such, religion had a significant positive role in both the emergence and persistence of the modern sciences. Later, with the commence of the Victorian era, came the “Age...