What is the best way to bridge the gap between religion and science?

Question

Science is based on what can be observed, tested and explained.
Religion is based on faith, and in some cases, revealed scripture.

If there is a difference between what is observed, and what is revealed, is it better to argue which is right, or to try to explain the difference?

If we try to explain the difference, is it better to do so from a stance of proving one position right, or being open to new understanding?

What criterion do we use for determining truth?

Thoughts?

Answer 1

What gap? There is only a gap in the minds of those who cannot see that Jesus built a bridge with only three nails and two peices of wood. Step out onto it in faith because you've already seen others walk on it and it holds them up superbly.
I have already answered these questions and shown how there is overwhelming proof just in archeological discoveries to validate the Bible as the Word of God. That being said, all that's left for you to do is to believe it, accept God into your heart and then reading it and living it every day. You cannot possibly come to the knowledge of the truth unless the spirit draws you and lifts the scales off your eyes that have you blinded. Carnal eyes just can't see spiritual things. You know love is real don't you? God is the author of love and His pure love is real and I can feel it in my soul and sometimes that presence is much stronger than others. The spirit will lead you into all truth if you will only be born again of the spirit.
You may read many many testimonies of former atheists, agnostics, etc. if you truly want to see it from their vantage point as converts who understand where you are coming from. I just wish that you could see and feel the love joy and peace that Christians have and have the assurance in your heart for yourself. Nobody can tell you what a roller coaster ride is like and you ever have much of an idea about it until you actually get on it for yourself. (I'm not advocating you should try bad things that are proven to be bad for a person!) God is putting people in your life even at Y.A. to make you hungry for what they have in the Lord.

Answer 2

Scientific evidence shows observable facts. Grass is green. The sky is blue. If you drop an apple, it will hit the ground.

When people believe in things that go against scientific facts, I just don't understand it. Carbon dating has dated Earth as being a few billion years old, yet some people believe that Earth is only a few thousand years old. That sort of gap is unbridgeable, because the people who believe that Earth is only a few thousand years old are obviously delusional. They deliberately turn themselves away from fact and embrace ideas which have no base in reality.

Now, there are quite a few things that science hasn't explained yet. Science can't quatitatively explain the beginning of the universe. There's the Big Bang Theory, but one must remember that it's still just a theory. Creationists have their take on the beginning of the universe, but one must remember that it's still just a myth. One needs to be open to the possibility of the truth being neither of those things, or a mixture of both.

To bridge the gap totally, I think is impossible. There are people on both sides who are so firmly entrenched in their own ideas that the possibility of being incorrect is not possible to them. For those people (and they are on both sides of the issue), differentiating themselves from their opponents has become almost as important as why they are opponents in the first place. For everyone else, it will take a little bit of magic and a little bit of logic for that bridge to appear.

Answer 3

the hollow between religions won't be able to be bridged. there are such rather some beliefs that are close interior the differant faiths. i have looked as if it would locate that the more suitable someone receives into what they have self belief they commence to understand between the substantial struggles is interior of themselves. The conflict of what's nice and how we actual act and picture. it is a generalization even though it type of feels to be straight forward with rather some communities. The differances are huge. If we dealt with one yet another as persons and realized that each and each body ethnic or religous communities are purely made from persons perhaps the international will be a more suitable delicate position. it is the all Christians or Jews or Muslims or Hindus and so on. are like this mentality that hurts.

Answer 4

Religion and Science are complementing each others if we are able to see clearly beyond things that can or can't be explained.
Instead of trying to explain the difference, why not see the similarity.
Example, both science and religion admire the sun.
In early days, human regards the sun as god then as science and religion developed, human still admire the sun as a god's bless to human kind.
Science regards the sun as one of the most powerful star and tries to make a good use of it.
Science and Religion can be the very source of every war only at the wrong hands.
We can make science and Religion work for peace and harmony.

Answer 5

I would say that people can get very confused on this point. There are facts out there and there are interpretations of those facts.

There is the idea that there was a big bang and then macro evolution and there is the creation story. No one on earth today can make a scientific claim that either is proven.

People that believe that macro evolution happened look at the evidence of millions of fossils buried under lots of rock layers and they will interpret that to be caused by lots of time. The biblical creationist will look at the same evidence and say that the rock layers and fossils were a result from the great flood.

The average scientist will make a claim that the layers=time and books, media, and shows about dinosaurs will believe it.

A biblical creationist will say that these layers formed quickly from the flood and people who believe the bible will agree with them because it makes sense to them.

Answer 6

If scientific "facts" contradict what the Bible says, then keep in mind that science has changed over the years. What was scientific fact at one point in time can and does change as man learns more about the world.

To bastet: There is blue grass in Ky. The sky can be black or grey.

Answer 7

in regards to Islam, there is no gap between science and religion. Many scientific miracles exist in the Qur'an which were told to the people over 1400 years ago, but are only proved today. for example..in the Qur'an all the stages of pregnancy are listed, but only recently has it been truly recognised.

check it out.

Answer 8

God refers to himself as one away from the world. The world is so full of lies and God has nothing to do with them and they have nothing to do with God. You can't expect science to be accurate at everything for humans make mistakes and the longer we go the bigger mess we usually make. read the Bible before you make any choices, if God is real and he is the ticket to your problems he will not stay silent. He will talk to you instantly through what you read. I'm out.

Answer 9

The laws of nature and science are man made laws, God defies those laws. Have you ever stopped to think that perhaps everything, absolutely everything you have been taught from birth is a lie? If you were to chuck it all out the window and start from scratch, everything, absolutely everything is possible.

Answer 10

have people start admitting that they don't know everything about everything and start humbling there self's to the fact that there is a creator because there is a creation