In the race between science and religion, what do you think the final outcome will be?

Answer 1

It is not a battle.

If people make it a battle, then science (which is all about accurate knowledge of the world) could find causal factors and smack down religion.

However, it would probably leave some.

Answer 2

An awful lot of people responded by saying it's not a race. I am assuming the asker knows what science and religion are, and is asking specifically about the points at which the two disciplines are at odds: for example, Genesis vs. Biology & Astrophysics. In this arena, there are (at least) two sets of "facts" which cannot both be literally accurate. Hence there is a confilct.

There will probably never be a "final outcome". The fact that there is still something that can be called a "race" clearly demonstrates that some people will never accept that they are wrong. I'm speaking of those individuals who still believe that Creationism is a viable "alternative" to Natural Selection. For these people, the evidence might as well not exist. They are never going to read or try to understand anything that goes against their belief system. So as long as these people are around, there will always be this faux "debate" which a handful of people insist they are winning while the rest of the world tries to politely ignore them.

I can think of two scenarios in which there could be a "final outcome":
1) As a result of nuclear or environmental disaster of apocalyptic proportions, civilization is completely annihilated. Science stops arguing about the origins of species, because there aren't any more scientists - just a bunch of guys in tattered labcoats trying to rub sticks together to roast a cockerspaniel. Meanwhile, a couple of Thumpers are hopping around joyfully, since this "proves" they where right all along. Then they sit down to wait for Jesus to arrive, and starve to death because he never shows up. The issue is now resolved.

2) In an effort to make the world a better place, we start employing active Eugenics programs. Soon, all the really stupid people have died off without heir, and the only people left are all really smart. Obviously there is no longer any form of organized religion, because there is no one left with an intelligence low enough to support it. Hence the issue is resolved.

Answer 3

I can't speak for all religions. But science and christianity don't conflict. What christianity conflicts with is evolution which is not science. The fossils do not show evolution. They actually show complex creatures appearing suddenly during the cambrian explosion with no transitional forms before them. Darwin was aware of that problem. He said "they're out there by the millions.....you should be stumbling over them as you walk out your back door". That's a quote from Darwin. His explanation as to why they hadn't found them yet was that archeology was in it's infant stages at that time. He predicted that after he was dead they would find them by the millions. But here we are 150 years later and they still haven't found any. Stephan J. Gould who was a Harvard paleontolgist and one of the top evolutionists in the world until he died a few years ago said this:"there's a trade secret among the paleontologists of the world.....namely, that the transitional forms don't exist". My question would be...why is it a trade secret? If the evidence doesn't show evolution why don't they tell the world. The reason is because evolution is a religion just like christianity(just read Ann Coulters new book'Godless'). Evolution, like christianity, must ultimately be accepted by faith.
But christianity is faith based upon reason. Evolution is just blind faith based upon nothing. It's no surprise that Gould and Niles Eldridge eventually gave up on darwinian evolution and started a new theory called 'Punctuated Equilibrium', a theory which Richard Goldschmidt(also an evolutionist) called the 'hopeful monster theory' a name he gave to it in derision. He descibed it by saying that a reptile once laid an egg and, VIOLA, out popped a bird. If you believe that, I've got some swampland I'd like to sell you....ON PLUTO.

Answer 4

Religion is so endless like no boundry while the science is quite limited as in a cup!!! How can an outcome will be final ? There will be a new new outcome one after another all the time in mankind for this two subjects.

Answer 5

A tie and a truce. Science will never convince everyone in the world that there is no God. And Science can never find out the ultimate fundamental of the universe.

And at the end, it will just say that God create universe and all these equations and theories to govern what we see here in this universe. Very much like the 10 commentment but it is for the universe we see.

With the Statement of "God created all these". It will finish it then.

Cause no matter how much proof is there, there are always people who accept only what they believe in.

That's exactly the same thing as many people fall in the cults. They are stuck at what their beliefs and you can't change it.

Answer 6

Religion will cease to be a matter of believing in this or that belief or doctrine, which separates into factions and denominations. It will become a religious attitude, a movement, a growth towards greater and greater cosmic perception.
Science will stop being subverted by vested interests in society and so cease to be a matter of knowing more and more about less and less. The scientist will be a holist, ie., possess a religious attitude.
He will cease, literally, to be interested in the localistic atomic approach. Instead of being two opposed and separate set of disciplines as they are now, science and (I will not say religion as that implies a set of doctrines) a religious attitude will go hand in hand.

Answer 7

It wouldn't call it a race. Some religions just have problems with the parts of science that contradict their dogma...the same people are all for any science that agrees with them.

Science is about empirical reality, proofs, "Scientific Method". Religion can never "beat" it, without abandoning reason.

Answer 8

I do not see a race between Science and Religion. I see that Science, History, and Archeology prove the Bible to be correct. See for yourself at drdino.com and creationevidence.org

Answer 9

D) All of the above.

The religious will never give up their views.. nor will science.

In my opinion, religion can be a science.. .and science can be a religion. Everyone will always have differing views and I doubt htat Science can ever really explain existance... I understand big bang... but how was matter created? What created the big bang. Some questions that will probably never be solved by the living.

Answer 10

You phrase it as if the interaction is a competition that will have a final ending one day. Sh!t ain't like that. There has always been an interaction between these fields. The early scientists, like Newton, Gallileo, Darwin were devout Christians. They were trying to figure out God's Design. If you look into modern cutting edge physics researchers, you will hear them starting to sound kinda mystical. The interaction may swing the other way soon. It's like a tide: it comes in and goes out.

Answer 11

In the first place, I don't think there is a race or any competition. Truth is truth, and the two can coexist quite nicely. In fact science has backed up religion in many areas, and vice-versa.