What is the major difference between science and religion?

Question

Why does science conflict with religion? What if both are entwined together?

Answer 1

Religion is the lazy persons way of knowing God, they settle for any fairy tale the hear and run with it as fact. It doesn't take much work to do that. Science is the thinking, hardworking persons way of appreciating God's work and Glory by using their God-given brains and talent to better understand the Almighty and his universe.

Answer 2

Science is that which is observable, demostratable, and repeatable. Religion is a set of beliefs and practices a person or group of persons adheres to. Whether science conflicts with religion depends on what religion you are talking about. If you just mean, why does science insist that God doesn't exist, then maybe you are asking the wrong question. Look at the definitions above again and tell me evolution is a science and not a religion. Any, and I do mean any theory of origins cannot be observed, demonstrated, or repeated and is therefore in fact theory and not science. Anyone who believes theory as fact is adhering to a belief, which falls into the religious category. Too bad so many scientists are so religious. And too bad politics have always interfered with scientific discovery. Imagine what we might know now if religion and politics could be separated from true, pure, science. You can't answer the question before you ask it.

Answer 3

Religion: Stuff that people have postulated to try to add layers of meaning or something to the world.

Science: The additive attempt to discover the truth, no matter what that may be, using the best methods anyone's ever been able to bring to bear on the world.

The problem is that religion (especially human interpretation of religious stuff) sometimes ends up making claims about the world.

Science is built by making large numbers of claims about the world, and then squashing all the wrong ones. So it is very good at squashing. Unfortunately people tend to take it as an attack on their entire religion.

If these two come into conflict, we get the religion vs. science battles like the old Gallileo "the earth is not the center of the universe" idea.

Answer 4

With all respect to the religions let me say that, Science is God made and religion is Man made, this is the major difference according to my personal view. I am a true believer of God and have the faith in God, even though I will never say Science has conflicts with religion. It was happening just opposite and there are a lot of co-incidents in our past to prove that (eg. Galileo). I am pretty sure that, there is a mighty hands behind all the of the creations that we know and I believe, that creator is The God, the Great Scientist.

Answer 5

Religion -- at least the Catholic variety -- has historically been a patron of learning, including scientific learning.

Learning more about the world God created is a very Christian thing to do -- that's why the Catholic Church has patronized science and has placed such a premium on education in its history.

Science and Catholicism, believe it or not, have nothing to fear from each other. The Catholic Church is one of the best friends and benefactors that science has ever had.

That's why every Catholic school in the world has a science department ...

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Answer 6

science is branch of systematic knowledge, an object to study,study in technology, or chemistry, or knowledge of truths through the scientific method....,while religion is the service and worshipping God or the supernatural, beliefs and devotions to religeous faith or system of beliefs and faith. putting together the science and religion are imposible, why? some scientist dont believe god or any worshipping idols. they are the discoverer, like how earth was born, how planets moves or are there any living things through sceintific methods, and they also did inventions for modernization of technology., such nuclear weapons, scientist knews the danger of nuclear weapon, but still they continue doing it... its a wide range of explanation of the two, science and religion. while in religion, people do believe in God and have a strong determination that theres God, and the only way they can show their affection are the idols of the saints and crucifix. not unless the scientist do believe that theres God above all.

Answer 7

If a poll were taken of all the scientists in the world, the great majority would say they believed Darwinism to be true. But scientists, like everybody else, base most of their opinions on the word of other people. . . . Also, and unfortunately, too often criticisms have been dismissed by the scientific community for fear of giving ammunition to creationists. It is ironic that in the name of protecting science, trenchant scientific criticism of natural selection has been brushed aside.

Answer 8

Contrary to the atheistic propaganda machine, most religious people do not reject science and technology. I know with Christians, we are able to use things like philosophy, logic, reason and science to our benefit. Each of those areas has a voice in speaking of Gods existence and helping us to know more about God and his relationship to us.

The only problem with regard to science is that it only explores 1 mechanical/physical area of our existence; the natural world. In other words it asnwers the WHAT or HOW Q's in life, not the WHY which is most important.

Answer 9

One is based on observable fact and the other on mythology. There's nothing wrong with mythology, but if you mix religion (any religion) with science, it wouldn't be science just a more updated religion.

Answer 10

That is the problem of the ages. People seperate science and God like they do not co-exist. God is the creator of science. Science explains God's creation. The thing is we only understand a teeny tiny bit of science so we think we know it all and there is no God.