{Scientists, Evangelicals & Agnostics}[31st July 1990]

[Redbook7:181][19900731:2305f]{Scientists, Evangelicals & Agnostics}[31st July 1990]

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Evangelicals, for all their singing and dancing – which I have described before* as a symptom of the Calvinist** wheel turning its full 512 year circle – do have something in common with scientists in general, other than mutual detestation: an insistence on the importance of facts. I do not just mean that Evangelicals can insist on the factual truth of everything in the Bible (just as Science in general insists on the factual non-truth of much of it): I mean that Evangelicals can only see truth as historical, as fact or untruth, which is in fact just how Science sees it.

Of course the best Scientists see further than this; so do the best Evangelicals. I am talking about the Evangelical culture (if I have it right); and the Scientific culture.

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**John Calvin, 1509-1564

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