Like Darwin, David Lewis-Williams doesn’t think direct arguments against religion will have much effect on men unless they are gradually illuminated by science. So his book, “Conceiving God: the Cognitive Origin and Evolution of Religion,” takes an incremental approach through the history of religion and its conflicts with science. In the end, he concludes that theistic and non-theistic worldviews are incompatible unless science can bridge the gap.
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David Lewis-Williams doesn't think direct arguments against religion will have much effect on men unless they are gradually illuminated by science.
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April 2026
In this monthly issue, we examine how our understanding of energy — and how we source and use it — is evolving.
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