The Creation Science Movement in Korea: A Perspective from the History and Philosophy of Science

Abstract

Religion and science, the two great man-made cultural legacies on earth, have maintained a complicated and delicate relationship. Late nineteenth-century books that addressed the relationship between the two reflect extreme rationalism of the time and are focused on the conflict between them. Some of the major literature was written by William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1865), John William Draper (1875), and Andrew Dickson White (1896). 1 Bertrand Russell‘s Religion and Science (1935), published in the early twentieth century, also belongs to this category. 2 However, the research conducted by historians and philosophers of science