Private Doubt, Public Dilemma: Religion and Science since Jefferson and Darwin

A distinguished scholar urges scientists and religious thinkers to become colleagues rather than adversaries in areas where their fields overlap

“Refreshingly modest and nondogmatic. . . . Brims with lively anecdotes.”—John Horgan, Wall Street Journal

Each age has its own crisis—our modern experience of science-religion conflict is not so very different from that experienced by our forebears, Keith Thomson proposes in this thoughtful book. He considers the ideas and writings of Thomas Jeff...