OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Oxford New York Athens Auckland Bangkok Bogotá Buenos Aires Calcutta Cape Town Chermai Dar es Salaam Delhi Florence Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Mumbai Nairobi Paris São Paulo Singapore Taipei Tokyo Toronto Warsaw and associated companies in Berlin lbadan Copyright £ 2000 by Michael Horace Barnes Published by Oxford University Press, Inc. 198 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016 Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Barnes,Michael Horace. Stages of thought: the co-evolution of religious thought and science / Michael H. Barnes. p. cm. ISBN 0-19-513389-7 1. Religion and science. 2. Religion and science -- History. I. Title. BL240.2.B384 2000 291.1'75 -- dc21 99-23759 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper -iv- |