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Title: Of interest as a historical source
Review: The "History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science" may be of significant history for a reader who is interested in 19th Century views on religion and science (and as such it certainly has great merit), but for a reader seeking genuine insight on the books topic it largely useless.The author, keeping with his time, follows an evolutionary vision of human thought, instantly discarding any thought of the "primitives" and seeing true value only in his "enlightened" mind-set. Perhaps even worse, there is more than a bit of religious propaganda that sneaks its way into the text, without the author ever denoting it as such. For example, the ancient Christian polemic of Bahira, the heretical monk, is repeated as historical fact with no indication that it is at best pure legend.
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