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AT the recent Church Congress held at Southport, several papers dealt with the relations between science and religion. This is a subject of the deepest interest to students of natural science, for the ultimate objects of religious study and of scientific research are the same. This was finely expressed by no less a person than Sir Ray Lankester, whom no one will accuse of a bias in favour of theology; when he was president of the British Association at the York meeting in 1906. In his presidential address he claimed the sympathy of the Church for the scientific student, saying that the churchman and the student agreed in this: both had turned aside their gaze from the fleeting and temporal and had fixed it on the enduring and eternal; both, in a word, sought for the absolute and everlasting beneath the never-ending flux of things.
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Science and Religion. Nature 118, 577–578 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118577a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/118577a0