... between Religion and Science, (1874) and Andrew White's The Warfare of Science, (1876) were written in a highly significant period. The post-Darwinian era is a time widely regarded as that in which tensions between science and religion were greater than at any other stage in history. The warfare thesis is one that polarizes the notions of science and religion. The former is characterized by logic, reason and progression, the latter by faith trust and constant unmoving beliefs based on Biblical writings. F. M. Turner, in his article on the conflict, cites G.G. Simpson, who attempts to account for what he sees as the continual struggle between science and religion: The conflict between science and religion has a single and simple cause....The religious canon....demands absolute acceptance not subject to test or revision. Science necessarily rejects certainty and predicates acceptance of objective testing and the possibility of continual revision.3 Simpson's statement is important for ...

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