The Great Myths 16: The Conflict Between Science and Religion

Source	https://historyforatheists.com/2025/08/the-great-myths-16-the-conflict-between-science-and-religion/
Author	Tim O'Neill
Published	2025-08-06, 01:46 AM
Summary	The “Conflict Thesis” forms a kind of underlying historical metamyth that informs and undergirds a substantial number of assumptions about history by anti-theist polemicists. This is the assumed and unquestioned idea that Science and Religion have been perpetually at war down the ages. Also known as the Draper-White Thesis or Warfare Model, it is a conception of the history of science that presents religion as the perpetual and consistent enemy of science, technology and progress. It is a pervas
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