Article August 31, 1987 Issue

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The Union Leader

From The Union Leader, Manchester, New Hampshire, June 3, 1986

"In the standard account of the rise of atheism and agnosticism, the story goes this way. Back there a good way, during the 18th century, say, most people believed in God. In fact, most of them continued to do so throughout the 19th century.

"But, gradually, science gained authority as a rival authority .... We had the famous Victorian 'crisis of faith' in which people, including clergymen, read about the fossils of the galaxies and decided that they were no longer religious believers.

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