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Science and religion need not be antagonistic, says an arresting history.[qh]
一部引人入胜的历史著作表示，科学和宗教不一定是对立的。[qh]
Magisteria. By Nicholas Spencer.[qh]
《权威》，尼古拉斯·斯宾塞著。[qh]
In the late 19th century two books on science and religion were published within a decade of each other.[qh]
19世纪末，两本关于科学和宗教的书在十年内相继出版。[qh]
In "The Creed of Science" William Graham tried to reconcile new scientific ideas with faith.[qh]
在《科学信条》一书中，威廉·格雷厄姆试图调和新的科学思想与信仰之间的关系。[qh]
In 1881 Charles Darwin, by then an agnostic, told him:[qh]
1881年，当时还是不可知论者的查尔斯·达尔文对他说：[qh]
"You have expressed my inward conviction, though far more vividly and clearly than I could have done, that the Universe is not the result of chance."[qh]
"你表达了我内心坚信的看法，但比我讲述的更生动、更清晰，即宇宙不是偶然的结果。"[qh]
The other book made a much bigger splash.[qh]
另一本书引起了更大的轰动。[qh]
"History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science" by John William Draper was one of the first post-Darwinian tomes to advance the view that--as its title suggests--science and religion are strongly antithetical.[qh]
约翰·威廉·德雷珀的《宗教与科学的冲突史》是首先提出科学与宗教强烈对立这一观点（如其标题所示）的后达尔文巨著之一。[qh]
Promoted hard by its publisher, the book went through 50 printings in America and 24 in Britain and was translated into at least ten languages.[qh]
在出版商的大力宣传下，这本书在美国和英国分别经历了50和24次印刷，并被翻译成至少10种语言。[qh]
Draper's bestseller told a story of antagonism that, ever since, has been the mainstream way to see this relationship.[qh]
德雷珀的畅销书讲述的是对抗，此后对抗就成了看待科学与宗教的关系的主流方式。[qh]
In "Magisteria", his illuminating new book, Nicholas Spencer claims that this framing, more recently espoused by Richard Dawkins and others, is misleading.[qh]
在尼古拉斯·斯宾塞富有启发性的新书《权威》中，斯宾塞声称，这种看待方式具有误导性，更近期的理查德·道金斯和其他人也支持这种方式。[qh]
For centuries, he says, science and religion have been "endlessly and fascinatingly entangled".[qh]
他说，几个世纪以来，科学和宗教一直"无休止地、饶有趣味地纠缠在一起"。[qh]
Even (or especially) those readers inclined to disagree with him will find his narrative refreshing.[qh]
即使(或特别是)那些倾向于不同意他的读者也会发现他的叙述令人耳目一新。[qh]
Mr Spencer works at Theos, a religious think-tank in London, and is one of Britain's most astute observers of religious affairs.[qh]
斯宾塞在伦敦的宗教智库Theos工作，他是英国最敏锐的宗教事务观察者之一。[qh]
Some conflict between science and religion is understandable, he argues, but not inevitable.[qh]
他认为，科学和宗教之间的一些冲突是可以理解的，但不是不可避免的。[qh]
He offers an engaging tour of the intersection of religious and scientific history:[qh]
他带读者进行了一次引人入胜的旅程，展现了宗教史和科学史的交集：[qh]
from ancient science in which "the divine was everywhere", to the Abbasid caliphate in Baghdad in the ninth century and Maimonides, an illustrious Jewish thinker of the 12th--and onwards, eventually, to artificial intelligence.[qh]
从"神圣无处不在"的古代科学，到9世纪巴格达的阿拔斯哈里发，以及12世纪杰出的犹太思想家迈蒙尼德--再到最终的人工智能。[qh]
Now and again he launches salvoes against ideologues on both sides.[qh]
他时常向双方的理论家发起炮轰。[qh]
"Medieval science" is not an oxymoron, he writes. Nor is religious rationalism.[qh]
他写道，"中世纪科学"并不是矛盾修辞法，宗教理性主义也不是。[qh]
In the 11th century Berengar of Tours held that "it is by his reason that man resembles God."[qh]
在11世纪，图尔的贝伦加尔认为："正是因为有理性，人才像上帝。"[qh]
As religious dissent spread following the Reformation, Mr Spencer says, theology helped incubate modern science through the propagation of doubt about institutions and the cracking open of orthodoxies.[qh]
斯宾塞说，随着宗教异见在宗教改革后蔓延，神学通过传播对制度的怀疑和打破正统观念，从而帮助孵化了现代科学。[qh]
For their part, an emergent tribe of naturalists strove, chisel and hammer in hand, to show that creation pointed towards a creator.[qh]
对于他们来说，新兴的博物学家群体手持凿子和锤子，奋力证明造物指向的是造物主。[qh]
Exploration of nature was itself a form of worship.[qh]
探索自然本身就是崇拜的一种形式。[qh]
