Wow. Do you claim this as your own thoughts or are you going to provide a citation?
Well, both. Charleton J.H, Hayes, provides in more than one place, for example in a chapter of “A Generation of Materialism, (1941). an account of the evolution controversy. In it or another place I have read a discussion of the famous debate between Huxley and Wilberforce, which asserts that it was as much as anything a rebellion of lay science against the clerics, with the laymen being the new generation. There is a part of Einstein’s Relativity, an appendix, I think, in which Einstein rejects the simple Baconian empiricism that was a foundation of classical physics. It has been a long time since I read such stuff, and imuch of this is probably somewhat inaccurate. I think Russell’s views are well-know. A great man, and something of a moral monster. I think I owe my general view to a reading of Whitehead’s little history of science.