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Book review: The Myth of Religious Neutrality: An Essay on
Petcher, DN. 2006.  PSCF 58(1):80. CELD ID 20203

Abstract
Most people working in the humanities are aware, perhaps painfully, that the world of academia has taken a postmodern shift in recent decades, and for many good reasons. If postmodernism goes too far, scientists often remain oblivious, continuing in the view that science is objective and neutral, and therefore unaffected by worldview or religious belief. For this reason, the new edition of The Myth of Religious Neutrality should be considered a welcome volume for Christians who are in the sciences and especially those who recognize the important role religion can play in science. Myth forcefully argues for its major thesis that scientific theorizing in all areas of academia inevitably depends on foundational religious beliefs, and the revised edition updates the arguments to reply to feedback since the original version was published.