It was an event one hundred years ago: the centenary of Charles Darwin's birth was marked widely, no more so than by one of Germany's most famous biologists, Ernst Haeckel. He delivered an address at the University of Jena celebrating Darwin as one of the last events before he retired. Another century on and many institutions worldwide have celebrations under way this year to mark 200 years sin...

Many people assume ceaseless conflict between natural science and Christianity, but the real has been scientism Christianity. Scientism is view that only sciences (especially not theology) generate knowledge or rational belief. I show how Christianity generated beliefs contributed to rise of science. This science-fostering belief included rationales for when practice methodological naturalism, ...