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Religion has its place but don't pretend it's science

Nature volume 404, page 542 (2000)Cite this article

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I protest most strongly at Geoffrey Cantor's statement in his Millennium Essay1 that I have made tirades against religion and that I regard it as the enemy of science. This is simply false; see what I have written on this topic, as in my Unnatural Nature of Science (Faber, London, 1993).

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  1. Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK

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