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Well, one thing that’s quite striking about modern rational culture is this insistence that the religious tradition of the West and the scientific tradition are somehow at fundamental odds. I mean, I used to believe that, I think, when I was young, at least to some degree. Although now I’m very curious about where that idea came from, because it’s absolutely clear, first of all, that the universities themselves emerged out of the monasteries. That’s just completely unquestionable. Oxford and Cambridge are monasteries for all intents and purposes, and so the whole university idea emerged out of the church. And then the notion that the universe is in fact intelligible and that the pursuit of truth would be redemptive, that’s a fundamentally religious idea. And then the scientific endeavor itself, given figures like Newton, for example, was embedded inside that religious tradition.