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Stableford, Brian M. – Biology and Human Affairs, 1978
Discusses the conflict between the religious and scientific imaginations as existing between the intellectual realms of unquestioning faith and constant questioning. Relates this conflict to writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, e.g., Bacon, Kepler, Wilkins, Godwin, Harrington, Campanella, Cyrano, Le Bret, Defoe, Swift, Voltiare,…
Descriptors: Anthropology, College Science, Eighteenth Century Literature, Higher Education