conflict thesis

proper noun

A historiographical approach in the history of science, maintaining that there is an intrinsic intellectual conflict between religion and science and that it inevitably leads to hostility.

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Meanings

proper nounthe conflict thesis
  1. A historiographical approach in the history of science, maintaining that there is an intrinsic intellectual conflict between religion and science and that it inevitably leads to hostility.
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