Posts from ‘February, 1997’

To Natural History, Re: Religion and Science

I applaud Stephen Jay Gould’s promotion of tolerance and mutual respect between science and religion in his piece, “Nonoverlapping Magisteria” (”This View of Life,” March 1997). I too am a “cold bath” theorist who doesn’t find it emotionally cold to be so.
However, his suggestion that science “cannot claim higher insight into moral truth from [...]