Religion and Science from Galileo to Bergson

"Religion and Science from Galileo to Bergson" by J. C. Hardwick is a historical look at how science and religion have interacted over time. The book, written in the early 1900s, looks at the relationship between advancements in science and religious ideas, especially the disagreements that arose from the Renaissance period onward. According to the author, people are naturally religious, and this nature affects how they deal with the growth of well-organized scientific information. The book begins by defining religion as an "attitude toward life" and science as "accurate and systematic knowledge," suggesting it is important to understand how these two ideas affect challenges to religious ideas now and noting the historical periods of agreement and conflict between religion and science. It claims that as science makes progress, it substantially influences religious beliefs and people's attitudes about life, paving the way for a more detailed study of historical philosophers and what they added to these fields.