What science can learn from religion.

Articles Over the first half of the 20th century, the Catholic priest and prehistorian Henri Breuil transformed our understanding of early humans. A number of other priest-prehistorians working in Europe in that period were, too, as the French historian Fanny Defrance-Jublot argues in a forthcoming book, but they did not necessarily share Breuil's or the anti- clericals' interpretation of the evidence. You could even make the case, as Breuil's biographer Arnaud Hurel has, that being a priest equipped Breuil for his scientific work. [Extracted from the article]

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