Truth, Faith, and Evangelical Truth | Psychology Today:
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The line between religion and science seems to be increasingly sharp and abrasive these days, which is bit of a puzzle if you know something about history. Scientists have not been atheists, by and large, and believers have not always been so certain of their beliefs.
Sir Isaac Newton devoted the major part of his energies to writing religious tracts, after he completed his monumental work on celestial mechanics and the laws of motion. Blaise Pascal, noting that God's existence could not be definitively proved, developed his famous wager: it is better to believe in god as the benefits of belief outweigh the consequences of doubt.
But strident politicians today seem to have few scruples in asserting their fundamentalist convictions. For them everything is black or white.
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