Understanding Science and Religion

Understanding Science and Religion

  • Submitted By: perplexieng
  • Date Submitted: 02/18/2009 4:55 AM
  • Category: Religion
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Over the past few decades, there have been conflicts between Science and Religion and their search for the meaning of truth and understanding. Many have come to question if they speak the same language, for the belief of scientism has evolved such that many have come to believe that everything, or truth in fact, can be explained by science. Whatever cannot be explained by science, they do not consider true, which is highly inconsiderate and illogical if you ask me, since there are many other mysteries to the world we know exists because we see them, and even though we don’t see them, we still know they are there—and we know they’re true, just that we can’t understand them. The search for order and meaning in the world around us has taken different forms—there’s art concerned with the value of human interactions as they pertain to the senses, and there’s science and religion. Science is concerned with discovering and recording natural phenomena while religion is concerned with sources, purpose, and meanings of everything that exists. The point is, both science and religion shape our understanding of reality and should get along. They should work on the same page for they both have the same goal and focus; should speak the same language because in trying to give explanations and meanings to reality, they help each other and complement each other. They both bring each other to perfection.
The battle between science and religion started about five hundred years ago where scientists began to explain the universe and their findings did not fit the authorized version of the Catholic Church.
There is a universal law for which everything follows, even both science and religion. But science and religion should not have a battle between each other because both their findings are in many ways similar, though they may not be exactly the same. For example, the Genesis versus the Big Bang Theory. They both explain the beginning of existence, religion focusing on mysteries...

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