Brief history of biology, astronomy, astrobiology

There is a long-standing conflict between what we now call "science" and what we now call "religion."

Example: Geologic evidence of Noah's flood (Thomas Burnet, 1681 or 1689).

http://www.library.usyd.edu.au/libraries/rare/modernity/burnet.html

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