On the Incompatibility of Religion and Science: A Survey of American Graduate Students

IN recent years a lull has settled over the battle which once raged between science and religion.l The militant and crusading spirit of an earlier era seems to be dissipated, and the public forums no longer ring with cries of superstition or heresy. In these calmer days, a spate of recent apologetics suggests that a major preoccupation of many American theologians is to show either that there never was any basis for conflict between science and religion, or that old differences have been successfully