Science and religion are different. The domain of science is natural order: the domain of religion is nature’s purpose. Religious beliefs and practices usually involve faith in and worship of a supreme being and the creation of human community – not the practices of science. In this respect, science and religion are as different as apples and oranges and do not contradict each other. The two complement rather than contradict each other.
2007-12-12 01:32:56 · 13 answers · asked by DW +11 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I agree 100%. To quote Mary Midgley:
"Belief does not compete with science; it means different things. [Richard] Dawkins is very angry with anyone who says there are mysteries, but science cannot answer some questions. We raise all sorts of questions beyond the material world. Then it's understanding we're after rather than information. These are not questions like 'is there a box on the table?' but questions of inner life, that can't be settled in the lab."
2007-12-12 01:41:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I even have been a scientist for sort of thirty years now. the respond on your question relies upon on the way you define faith (and technological understanding). i've got often happening scientists who have self belief and pontificate technological understanding with a faith and ardor that's the envy of non secular persons. sometime scientists coach blind faith interior the precepts and ideology of others. each so often it style of feels that there is a undeniable dogma in technological understanding, and you had extra advantageous settle for it or you basically isn't taken heavily via the standard medical community. that could properly be fantastically closed. you will not get investment in case you do not comply with the triumphing medical doctrines, exterior of particular permissible limits. you are not getting known to teach at a school if your theories are too a tactics out. that is not in simple terms the non secular who've closed minds and irrational attachments to the classes of their elders or their puppy theories. i think of whilst a individual gets emotionally in contact, and heatedly defends technological understanding as not a faith, then he's in certainty appearing as though for him technological understanding is a faith.
2016-11-03 00:24:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
u are wrong. that might be a scientist or an atheist perspective, but in fact, religion and science came from the same source. science cannot stand by its own. so do religion. both are needing each other. in islam, religion and science are apart, but they do still be needed in. but for christians, between religion and science, there is a very huge gap. for most of them, scince is totally different from religion. i got this opinion from priests.
2007-12-12 01:45:22 · answer #3 · answered by Amirul 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The statement in and of itself is fine but where the problem arise is when religion tries to impose it's 'faith' as some kind of fact.
2007-12-12 01:41:03 · answer #4 · answered by ndmagicman 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Science and religion certainly are different, but I argue that religion is unnecessary and destructive, in the sense that it distorts our understanding of reality. There is no evidence that its subjects---gods and spirits---actually exist. If they did, they could be studied using scientific methodology.
Science, on the other hand, is essential for the long-term survival of our species and our planet.
2007-12-12 01:42:08 · answer #5 · answered by cosmo 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
As with anything, there is always a Right (Religion) and a Wrong (Science)...........since science tries to contradict religion, that should tell you something..............
2007-12-12 03:55:20 · answer #6 · answered by White Dove 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I totally agree. Faith has nothing to fear from Science. That is the Roman Catholic church's stance, and that of the main Protestant churches.
2007-12-12 01:52:30 · answer #7 · answered by caulk2005 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree. Science and religion should be a compliment to each other.
2007-12-12 01:36:40 · answer #8 · answered by Soul Shaper 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That's all well and good -- up until the point where religion invariably starts trying to make definitive statements about the physical world that it has no evidence to back up....
2007-12-12 01:37:23 · answer #9 · answered by The Reverend Soleil 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The bible says bats are birds - Science says they are mammals.
The bible says hares chew their cud - Science disagrees.
The bible says the mustard seed is the smallest of all seeds - Science says it isn't.
Draw your own conclusions...
2007-12-12 02:41:39 · answer #10 · answered by youngmoigle 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋