Presentation of the Mariano Artigas Memorial Lecture 2019, John Hedley Brooke. Pamplona, October 15, 2019. John Hedley Brooke is Emeritus Professor of History of Science at Lancaster University. Member of the International Academy of the History of Science. Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at The University of Oxford. Director of the Ian Ramsey Centre, and Fellow of Harris Manchester College, Oxford. More information at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hedley_Brooke Abstract I intend to engage with three issues that were of particular interest to Professor Artigas: the degree to which there is inherent conflict between religious faith and the methods of science; the relative importance of science in processes of secularisation; and the complexity of the inter-relations between scientific thought and religious belief. After drawing on historical examples to illustrate different reasons for the complexity, I shall conclude with a brief discussion of three scientific topics of contemporary concern: global warming, the prospect of extra-terrestrial life, and advances in the development of artificial intelligence. In each case I shall suggest that the call for wider public consultation to address the associated ethical issues provides an opportunity for religious leaders to capitalise on the resources of their respective faith traditions.

1. “FIGHTING AGAINST RELIGION
IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE”
HAS THE BATTLE BEEN WON?
John Hedley Brooke
Oxford University

5. Richard Dawkins
[Photo courtesy of The Independent]

6. Mary Douglas John Evans

9. Joseph Priestley

10. Pierre Simon de Laplace Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

11. Johannes Kepler

14. Francis Bacon
Isaac Newton

15. Thomas Henry Huxley

16. Charles Darwin

17. Annie Darwin

18. Charles Taylor

23. Photo of Stephen Hawking courtesy of ‘Variety’

24. The total population of the
Solar System
according to Thomas Dick (1837)
21, 891, 974, 404, 480

25. Statue of Giordano Bruno
Campo de’ Fiori, Rome

26. Philip Melanchthon

27. John Wilkins

28. David Brewster

29. William Whewell

30. Alfred Russel Wallace