“Mitos sobre las relaciones entre ciencia y religión: el papel del discurso dicotómico en las narrativas históricas”

Abstract

This article critically examines the construction and perpetuation of dichotomous narratives that present the relationship between science and religion as inherently antagonistic. From a methodological perspective that integrates critical historiography and social studies of science, it analyzes how the so-called “conflict thesis” has systematically distorted the contextualized understanding of scientific development, particularly in the case of the so-called “Darwinian revolution.” The research focuses on a detailed examination of the cases of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, demonstrating how their positions on religious and spiritual issues have been subject to reductionist interpretations that artificially reinforce the image of incompatibility between scientific thought and transcendent dimensions.