An interesting essay on the relationship between science and religion. Are they necessarily at odds, or can there be some common ground? [theconversation.com]
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Thanks. Of course it all depends on how we define ‘science’ and ‘religion’. If we define religion as a belief system then there are likely to be conflicts, but if we define religion as a practice, then there need not be any conflict at all. In fact the two can become mutually supportive.
A blind commitment to the popular notion that a proper definition of ‘religion’ must be centered around a belief in a literal god is as unsupported by the historical evidence as the god-belief itself is unsupported by science.
So, those who believe religion is just belief in things that aren’t true, must, by their own definition, consider themselves religious.
skado
Level 9
Nov 20, 2018
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I don't buy it. Not for one second.
The goal of science is to make knowable what is knowable.
The goal of religion is to make knowable what can not be known. A futile endeavor at best.
Just my 2¢
Jay1313132018
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Nov 20, 2018
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There is no real relationship between science and religion. They are mutually exclusive. Only those people who want to accept scientific principles and processes, but cannot wean themselves off emotion dependency on religion attempt a relationship between science . and religion
wordywalt
Level 9
Nov 20, 2018
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Depends on the religion. Science is about the knowable, and the ways we can find out stuff, test ideas, and discuss how we interpret what we discover. Religions get in trouble here if they also make claims to know things that can be disproven, often easily. If they stick to philisophical ideas, ethics and stuff that can’t be disproven (like gods, angels, most things supernatural), they are safer, though many traditional ideas begin to look sillier once you know their history or begin to see a world with better, more common sense explanations for what’s going on.
The-Krzyz
Level 8
Nov 20, 2018
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Science and religion are antithetical.
Diogenes1972
Level 6
Nov 20, 2018
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I thought unsupported statements like that were what we, as freethinkers, were meant to avoid. The essay, if you read it, makes the opposite case. You would need to refute those arguments.
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