Arend Heyting About The Relationship Science-Religion

The 1971 meeting of the International Academy of the Philosophy of Science, devoted to science, philosophy and faith, gave the famous Dutch logician Arend Heyting the occasion to briefly express his opinions about the relationship between religion and the sciences. His main reference was Julian Huxley’s humanism, but he also presented contributions stemming from other scholars. In this paper, I will try to obtain a picture of Heyting’s religious thought as rich and articulated as possible, by confronting his thought with that of the authors quoted by him, i.e. Julian Huxley, Bertrand Russell, Ian Ramsey, Gerrit Mannoury and L.E.J. Brouwer.