"Here [in Secular Humanism] are all the elements for a religious faith that shall not be confined to sect, class, or race. Such a faith has always been implicitly the common faith of mankind. It remains to make it explicit and militant."
John Dewey, A Common Faith [1934], p.87
"As Colin Russell tells it in his book Cross-Currents: Interactions Between Science and Faith, the idea of a war between science and religion is a relatively recent invention - one carefully nurtured by those who hope the victor in the conflict will be science. ... Huxley ... Though secularists, they understood very well that they were replacing one religion by another, for they described their goal as the establishment of the 'church scientific.' Huxley even referred to his scientific lectures a 'lay sermons.'"
Nancy R. Pearcey and Charles B. Thaxton, The Soul of Science, p. 19
"one day while browsing through a library in Colorado Springs, [Julian] Huxley came across some essays by Lord Morley in which he found these words: 'The next great task of science will be to create a religion for humanity.' Huxley was challenged by this vision. He wrote, 'I was fired by sharing his conviction that science would of necessity play an essential part in framing any religion of the future worthy of the name.' Huxley took up Morley's challenge to develop a scientific religion. He called it 'Evolutionary Humanism.'"
Norman L. Geisler, Baker Encyclopdia of Christian Apologetics, p. 346
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