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Science and religion at war about war

Michael Ruse: The problem of war: Darwinism, Christianity, and their battle to understand human conflict. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, xiv + 261 pp, $34.95 HB

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Weikart, R. Science and religion at war about war. Metascience 28, 425–428 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-019-00443-9

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