# The Conflict Thesis

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**Created:** [February 1, 2022, 5:12pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/the-conflict-thesis/14775 "2022-02-01T17:12:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 6, 2022, 7:19pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/the-conflict-thesis/14775/35 "2022-02-06T19:19:01Z")

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I think now would be a good time to remind readers (and myself as well), that the Flat Earth issue is only a small sliver of the Conflict Thesis issue, and besides has [its own thread](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/flat-earths-and-fake-footnotes/14777/1) currently on this forum.

As @TedDavis [reminded us](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/the-conflict-thesis/14775/14), there have been a number of conflict-related views, both historic and modern. Wikipedia sites the Conflict Thesis in a wider framework of an ‘[Incompatibility](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relationship_between_religion_and_science#Incompatibility)’ perspective. And I cannot help but wonder if this isn’t a better general label – the viewpoint that science and religion _do things differently_. This need not _necessitate_ conflict – a ‘live and let live’ might prevail. But it can also, at times, lead to a ‘my way or the highway’ attitude.

On the latter point, I am still unwilling to accede to Kemp’s ‘both sides are to blame’ framing of this. I have yet to see even the most strident atheist advocate for forcing evolution into churches, let alone write legislation attempting to make this law. I have however seen no end of (both proposed and in a few instances passed) religiously-motivated legislation that attempts to control what is taught in Public School (and thus, by the Establishment Clause, secular) science classes.

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