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Down the centuries, science and religion have often appeared to be in conflict, the requirement for evidence in scientific matters seeming to sit awkwardly with the basis in faith of theistic belief. For many, the apparent contest between creation and evolution through natural selection polarises the debate. This triggered the famous exchange between Charles Darwin's bulldog, TH Huxley, and William Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford (who, for wit, in our opinion, has the better of the exchange) at the 1860 Oxford meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science: "would it be through his grandfather or his grandmother that [Huxley] claims descent from a monkey?" chided the Bishop; remarking to Sir Benjamin Brodie, seated by his side, ‘the Lord hath delivered him into mine hands’, Huxley replies that "he is not ashamed to have a monkey as an ancestor; but he
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