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- When there is a clash between religious truth and scientific truth, various methods have been used to reconcile the two. During the [[Middle Ages]], for example, there was conflict between [[Roman Catholic]] dogma on the one hand and an emerging body of [[science|scientific knowledge]] on the other. Sometimes the established church sought to suppress scientific truth, as in the case of [[Galileo]], but sometimes the two truths were allowed to coexist, which led to the doctrine of the two truths. According to this compromise, there is a lesser truth, scientific truth, which holds that the earth orbits the sun, and a greater truth, religious truth, that holds that the earth is the fixed center of the universe. According to the doctrine of the two truths, these two truths were both true in their own sphere. <ref> Will Durant, ''The Reformation'', Simon and Schuster, 1957. </ref><ref>See also, [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/cgi-local/DHI/dhi.cgi?id=dv2-04 ''Dictionary of the History of Ideas'' Double Truth]</ref> In the [[20th Century]], there were similar attempts to explain apparent conflicts between religious truth and scientific truth, especially where the [[age of the earth]], the historicity of a universal [[flood]], and the [[evolution]] of species were concerned. The conflict between religious truth and scientific truth continues.

- When there is a clash between religious truth and scientific truth, various methods have been used to reconcile the two. During the [[Middle Ages]], for example, there was conflict between [[Roman Catholic]] dogma on the one hand and an emerging body of [[science|scientific knowledge]] on the other. Sometimes the established church sought to suppress scientific truth, as in the case of [[Galileo]], but sometimes the two truths were allowed to coexist, which led to the doctrine of the two truths. According to this compromise, there is a lesser truth, scientific truth, which holds that the earth orbits the sun, and a greater truth, religious truth, that holds that the earth is the fixed center of the universe. According to the doctrine of the two truths, these two truths were both true in their own sphere. <ref> Will Durant, ''The Reformation'', Simon and Schuster, 1957. </ref><ref>See also, [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/cgi-local/DHI/dhi.cgi?id=dv2-04 ''Dictionary of the History of Ideas'' Double Truth]</ref> In the [[20th Century]], there were similar attempts to explain apparent conflicts between religious truth and scientific truth, especially where the [[age of the earth]], the historicity of a universal [[flood]], and the [[evolution]] of species were concerned. The conflict between religious truth and scientific truth continues.

 

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