Religion and Science from Galileo to Bergson

The work sets out to show how humanity’s innate religiosity keeps urging us to read the universe in spiritual terms, even as scientific knowledge reshapes our picture of reality. Rather than claim to be a comprehensive history, it picks representative thinkers—Galileo, Pascal, Kant, Darwin and others—to illustrate the evolving clash and conversation between faith and reason. The author’s modest aim is to trace the shifting boundaries where systematic science meets a religious outlook.

Divided into clear sections, the book follows the breakdown of the medieval synthesis, the rise of mechanical philosophy, and the spirited responses of figures like Spinoza, Hegel and the Romantics. It then moves through Darwin’s biological challenges, the surge of materialism and agnosticism, and the later attempts to reconcile scientific insights with spiritual experience. Listeners will discover a thoughtful tour of ideas that continues to shape how we understand both the cosmos and our place within it.