he War Between Spirituality and Science Is Over
Image via Wikipedia The real question posed by Mooney’s USA Today column is whether Christians possess the discernment to recognize this postmodern mode of spirituality for what it is — unbelief wearing the language of a bland faith. There are many arenas of cultural and intellectual conflict in the world today, but one of the most controversial of these arenas has disappeared. There is now no conflict between spirituality and science. The war is over, the combatants have gone home, and lilies of peace now decorate the landscape where conflict once raged. Science and spirituality are now at total unperturbed peace. That paragraph is meaningless, of course, which is entirely the point. Monday’s edition of USA Today features an opinion column by Chris Mooney , author of Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future . Mooney sets out to argue that spirituality can serve as a bridge across the science-religion divide. Mooney is alarmed by the pervasiveness of wh