Editing Frederick Temple (section)

== Science and religion ==
Temple had a lifelong interest in the [[relationship between science and religion]]. In 1860 at the famous meeting of the [[British Association]] which saw the debate between [[Thomas Huxley]] and [[Samuel Wilberforce]], Temple preached a sermon welcoming the insights of [[evolution]].{{sfn|Polkinghorne|1998|p=7}} In his Eight Bampton Lectures on the Relations between Religion and Science (1884) Temple stated clearly that "doctrine of Evolution is in no sense whatever antagonistic to the teachings of Religion".{{sfn|Temple|1903|loc=Lecture iv}} These lectures also addressed the origin and nature of scientific, and of religious belief and the apparent conflicts between science and religion on free will and supernatural power.