How do religion and science go together?

Question

NOTE: THEY DO GO TOGETHER, I JUST WANT TO KNOW HOW.

Ben, my grammar is correct, since I am saying religion and science, it is in a plural form, therefore I must use "do" not "does". You can only say, "How does religion OR science go together?", but this would make the question senseless.

Answer 1

Simply put, they are both a search for the truth.

Answer 2

Religion and science fit together so seamlessly that you can hardly tell where the boundary is. I mean true science and true religion. Good science is about the only place you can get rigorous peer review and testing over a long time for a major idea. True religion uses all the sciences to fulfill it's mission. I don't think we have this ideal today. But eventually
in some people there will be that perfect balance.
Science prevents religion from being superstitious. It's doing a good job at that, or trying too. Religion prevents science
from worshiping the false gods. I don't think it's doing an especially great job at that today. But the synthesis is the
thing; upward and inescapable convergence in a unified whole.

Answer 3

I think it can be seen in two ways:
I'm sure they do go together but the link between them is beyond our comprehension. Take for instance the big bang theory. Since we know from science the energy cannot be created nor destroyed, perhaps one could find a spiritual link to the creation of the energy that started the process. Obviously this is a guess.
On the other hand, religion requires faith, whereas science requires mathematical proof. So, unless you were able to prove God scientifically with a mathematical backing, it would never be enough for inherently skeptical scientists.

Cool Question !!!

Answer 4

I believe you take what you feel is right from both. Science is also still expanding and growing and finding new things everyday. To be a scientist who rules out the existence of God because he can't prove it. I say think about what they couldn't prove in say the 1800's that we take as proven fact today. To be a true scientist, you cannot rule out a hypothesis until it has been empirically tested and shown to be false. You don't take circumstantial evidence and then make a judgement. That's how wives' tales start. Example: Guy eats fish and drinks milk, dies one hour later, so you assume the combination of milk and fish is deadly. That type of science is called pseudoscience. Any scientist who rules out the existence of something without proof is a pseudoscientist not a true Scientist.

Answer 5

From what I've seen in college and in church, not well at all.
For believers, it's all about faith which is simply confidence and trust in that which is not yet seen. By its very nature, it's not subject to any empirical observations such as those common to science.
Science is based purely on that which is observable, testable, measurable, and quantifiable. It takes the approach to life that if it cannot be subject to any of the above, it's not real in a physical sense. It doesn't matter that there is a duality to life and all of reality, science takes the arrogant approach that it alone is the arbiter of what is and what isn't of value. However, it's no surprise that alot of people in the fields of science who deny the existence of God quickly change their minds when confronted with death. Not all of them, but alot of them do. My own cousin is case specific on this point.

Answer 6

First of all, your grammar is bad. It should be stated, "How does religion and science go together?" Either way, science is the study of the natural world. And most religion, preferably Christians, believe that our lord God created the all existence, a.k.a. the natural world. But there are many more relations between science and religion.

Answer 7

Science is everything for which we have an explanation.

Religion covers how God created everything in the universe including the things we have experienced whether we have sicentifically figured them out or not.

Science tells us how we might interact with the physical processes and materials in our environment while religion tells ua how to deal with the rest of out existance in a spiritual sense.

Science will be with us while we have a physical body but the impact of religion will be with us always.

Answer 8

Religions begin with one person's (excepting Hinduism, Judaism etc.) insight into the relationship between being and reality, the mind/matter or psychology/physics relationship, and each has a particular approach to achieving an experience of unity, 'eternal' aliveness or heaven/nirvana within the responsive reality in which we are embedded.

Psychology and physics are still in their infancy and are only beginning to explore the edges of what great religious thinkers (and even some philosophers) have tried to express for 4,000 years or more. Psychology focuses on stabilizing the learned ego while religion requires its death. What religion calls the Divine or God because it is responsive to consciousness, physics explores as a multi-dimensional field or 'gel' responsive to observation.

Religion once formalized always deteriorates into platitudes and afterlife fear-mongering, dumbed down for the masses and maintained by a central hierarchy. However, the mystical traditions of differing sects - keepers of the original symbols and meaning - offer the same message with different spiritual/psychological paths for transcending the learned egoic self and return to "being" called (in Christianity) rebirth, resurrection of the Christ Self, second coming of the Self etc. The message is we are not our learned ego, but the "observer" of its contents and cause and effect relationship with reality. Purification/transcendence of the little ego identity is necessary BECAUSE reality mirrors consciousness. The egoic learned (programmed) belief system is mostly unconscious but through controlling our thought system, feelings, perceptions and actions, it controls one's experience of reality UNLESS we remember who we are and return to being/unity with our true nature. Only then does reality synchronize with our true Self and our purpose. Science is still attempting to understand what religions already know but cannot explain in scientific language. At some point they'll be able to communicate. Some quantum physicists (Greene and Kaku) have already begun correlating their discoveries with mysticism.

More contemporary sects like Christian Science, Unity, Scientology and A Course in Miracles have more updated approaches, but generally the goals are the same.

Answer 9

Of the thousands of religion scattered around the world, its illogical that they go together with science. With all religious fanatics, idolatrys, superstitions and traditions. even the Jewish religion in the Bible can never reconcile with true science. But the Holy Bible rightly divided, literally and dispensationaly interpreted never contradicts with true science. Along with true history and right logical philosophy.
They are in glorious harmony in the midst of complexity.

Answer 10

I'm not here to answer this as my feelings have already been said by others. I just wanted to say that this was a great question and the answers were all very good and thought provoking. There's hope for us all yet. Bravo guys.

Answer 11

*note* There is no proof of any correlation only my own logic.
Which may not be as awesome as I think it is.

For a Quick and Dirty answer: They both give our feeble brains a finite answer while we live in an infinite universe.

email me if you want with a more specific question and I can try and gived you a better answer. I have thought about this a lot but you may just get a bunch of crap :)