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5 posts tagged science and religion
“Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary. Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralyzing obscurantism. Religion prevents science from falling into the marsh of obsolete materialism and moral nihilism.”
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.”
G.K. Chesterton (via compilationofquotes)
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“Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind”
Albert Einstein. (via missdaisyvo)
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“Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each can draw the other into a wider world, a world in which both can flourish…. We need each other to be what we must be, what we are called to be.”
Pope John Paul II (via firstbreath90)
The Science v. Religion Death Match Rages On!!!
A friend of mine proposes:
“Science can have a place in religion, but religion absolutely cannot have a place in science.”
Taken in the right sense, I can wholeheartedly agree, but it’s all a little ambiguous for my taste.
The crux of the issue depends upon the precise meaning of the somewhat amorphous phrase “have a place in”.
If “have a place in” means “be validly incorporated into”, then I agree.
The following claim is true: Science can be validly incorporated into religion, but religion absolutely cannot be validly incorporated into science.
Science and Religion, while each involve the pursuit of Truth, nonetheless operate on different levels and depend upon entirely different principles. Whereas Religion is free to embrace scientific discovery without necessarily being sacrilegious, Science is not in the same way free to embrace untested religious revelation without betraying its defining principles. Whereas scientific discovery is not intrinsically sacrilegious, divine revelation is un-scientific by definition.
If “have a place in” means “validly inform (science or religion) in some (or any) manner”, then I disagree.
The following claim is false: Science can validly inform religion in some manner, but religion absolutely cannot validly inform Science in any manner.
The state of Science and Religion working toward the same end but on different levels and by different principles does not necessitate that they have no relationship to each other whatsoever. Indeed, Good Science and True Religion have much to say to each other. Science has the potential to answer the “who-what-where-how-whens” of Religion (…and life, the universe, and everything). Religion has the potential to answer the “whys” of Science (…and life, the universe, and everything). So Science offers the answers to the more numerous and very important questions surrounding Religion, and Religion offers answers to the more profound and fundamental questions regarding Science. At least in this manner, each has the ability to inform the other regarding it’s own area of expertise.
