Mary Doria RussellWriting my own novels in the '90s...I never imagined that in ten years, science and rationality would require explanation and defense in a world rocked and ruled by religious fervor.
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While public discourse has been deeply influenced by religion, it is also influenced by science and rationality. When a book with the title “Science and Religion” was released in 2009, it was met with a lot of criticism from people who were worried that science would be ridiculed or dismissed as being incompatible with religious dogma. In retrospect, those criticisms have been wholly misplaced. Science and religion have always been allies, not enemies. In fact, as is so often the case with deep questions, science and religion have an overlap as well as a divergence.
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