Editing David Lack (section)

===Religious beliefs===
Lack's parents belonged to the Church of England, and he was an agnostic as an early adult but became a convert to [[Anglicanism]] in 1948, possibly influenced by Dan and Mary Neylan, friends at Dartington Hall.<ref>Anderson (2013):127.</ref> He sought to find a compromise between science and religion and wrote, in 1957, ''Evolutionary theory and Christian belief,'' on the relationship between Christian faith and evolutionary theory. Lack believed that evolution could not account for morality, truth, beauty, free will, self-awareness and individual responsibility.<ref>Anderson (2013):123-124.</ref> This book foreshadows, in some ways, the [[non-overlapping magisteria]] conception of the relationship between [[religion and science]] later popularised by [[Stephen Jay Gould]].

[[Arthur Cain]] remarked of him, "David Lack was the only religious man I knew at that period who did not allow his religion to dictate his view of natural selection."<ref>Cain, A. J. and Provine, W. B. (1991) "Genes and ecology in history". In Berry, R. J. ''et al.'' (eds.) ''Genes in ecology'': the 33rd Symposium of the British Ecological Society. Blackwell, Oxford. p. 9.</ref>