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Science 2 September 2005:
Vol. 309. no. 5740, pp. 1493 - 1494
DOI: 10.1126/science.1116362
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SCIENCE AND RELIGION:
200 Years of Accommodation

Alan Cutler

Before Darwin
Reconciling God and Nature
Keith Thomson
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2005. 328 pp. $27. ISBN 0-300-10793-5.
The Watch on the Heath
Science and Religion Before Darwin
HarperCollins, London, 2005. £20. ISBN 0-00-713313-8.
The author explores aspects and effects of the clash between the developing scientific study of Earth and beliefs based on literal readings of the Bible in England from the 1650s through to 1860.
The reviewer is the author of The Seashell on the Mountaintop, a biography of Nicholas Steno. E-mail:ahcutler@aol.com

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)