ABSTRACT
The war between religion and science began in the nineteenth century. The war can be analyzed as taking place in two arenas at once: on the intellectual level, where statements and assertions by religious authorities directly contradict those of scientific authorities and vice versa, and also on the social level, where the forces institutional religion and secular society have contended with one another. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the physicist's universe is less like a machine than an organism, i.e., an entity that has a beginning in time, which has undergone expansion, growth, and increase in complexity; it is currently in middle age and will eventually die. Battles between evolutionists and creationists take place with evolutionists claiming the complete intellectual victory of what may termed genetic imperialism, while the creationists promote a scientific form of creationism that perceives the handiwork of God in the passages from one evolutionary stage to another.
