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Alexander Winchell - Reconciliation of science and religion (1877)

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Science is an indefatigable reaper; but how many tares do we find bound up with the wheat! How many exploded theories have left their wrecks along the highway of time! How many abandoned explanations and beliefs lie scattered by the way-side!

Alexander Winchell
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The din of a great controversy sounds in oar ears. Men of thought have been summoned to choose their banner, and range themselves upon one side or the other of the line of battle. It is the "conflict" between Religion and Science which has thrown the world into commotion.

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It appears from a cursory acquaintance with the facts, that faith and science have lived in perpetual strife. Faith has been wont to appropriate whatever has fallen within her reach, and science has declared, from time to time, that certain of her claims were indefensible; and she has been compelled to recede.

Alexander Winchell

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Alexander Winchell

Alexander Winchell
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Born: December 31, 1824
Died: February 19, 1891 (aged 66)
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