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→Thomas Huxley vs. Anglican Samuel Wilberforce debate
See: [http://creation.com/could-monkeys-type-the-23rd-psalm Thomas Huxley vs. Anglican Samuel Wilberforce debate]
See: [http://creation.com/could-monkeys-type-the-23rd-psalm Thomas Huxley vs. Anglican Samuel Wilberforce debate]
== Agnosticism and the scientific revolution ==
[[Sociology|Sociologist]] [[Rodney Stark]] (an agnostic) investigated the individuals who made the most significant scientific contributions between 1543 and 1680 A.D., the time of the Scientific Revolution.
In Stark's list of 52 top scientific contributors,<ref name="Origins">Williams, Alex,[http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/1581/ The biblical origins of science], ''Journal of Creation'' 18(2):49–52, August 2004.</ref> only one ([[Edmund Halley]]) was an atheist and another ([[Paracelsus]]) was a [[pantheism|pantheist]].
The other 50 were Christians, 30 of whom could be characterized as being devout Christians.<ref name="Origins" />
Stark believes that the [[Enlightenment]] was a ploy by "militant atheists" to claim credit for the rise of science<ref>http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-3274629/False-conflict-Christianity-is-not.html</ref>.
== Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on agnosticism ==
== Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on agnosticism ==