Books: Contemporary Cosmology

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MAN AND His UNIVERSE—John Langdon-Davies—Harper ($5). Author Langdon-Davies' thesis: that the religious views of the man-in-the- street are largely formed by the "over-belief" (contemporary scientific attitude toward the universe) of his day. In Man and His Universe he gives "not exactly a history of science but a history of the human imagination as science has affected it and allowed it to grow." He takes no stock in the much-touted conflict between science and religion: "There is no such thing: there is only a conflict between two religious outlooks and two ideas of...