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The relation between technology and religion is problematic and has gen erally been recognized as such at least since the work of Max Weber?and even more so as a result of studies by Lynn White jr.1 There are basically two positions on this relationship. One asserts that some version of the Christian religion made a decisive contribution to the rise of modern tech nology, while partisans of the other position contend that religion and technology are fundamentally at odds. In two recent books David Noble and Jay Newman revive the historical and philosophical arguments between these two positions, which have sometimes been seen as having exhausted themselves.2 Unfortunately, Noble and Newman only marginally advance the state of this discussion. Noble begins his The Religion of Technology: The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention with the observation that we approach the new mil |
