'It is sometimes assumed that at the heart and center of the long conflict between evangelicalism and culture lay new scientific claims about a long-earth history and the theory of evolution by natural selection. The so-called war between Christianity and Science has attracted a great deal of attention, but specialists in the field generally agree that the military metaphor of war is overblown and that a great number of eminent scientists remained orthodox Christians.'
David Hempton, Evangelical Disenchantment, p.12.
