Summary Of Science Vs Religion

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“The Real Religious Lives of Scientists” and “The Voice of Science,” in Science vs. Religion: What Scientists Really Think by Elaine Howard Ecklund
The author began this chapter by explaining there are some people who are scientist and have religious faith as well, so we cannot people should not just assume that there is a conflict between science and religion. The author pointed it out that the church and Galileo’s earth revolve around the sun case, which stated science and religion debate was not in conflict. However, some scholars in high-ranking universities generated these conflict debates. These scholars’ studies of how scientist view matters of faith is the reason of this conflict saga. The author a psychologist James Henry Leuba as example. He stated Leuba after making his survey on National Academy …show more content…

I agree with some of the people idea of saying that science and religion are in conflict that is their opinion. Most of the people that express their view in the author’s interview were once religion but due to some reason, they diverted. I do agree with those people who left religion because of hardship and misunderstanding, but I do not agree with those who said religion lead to violent and cause people to do harm. Those who do violent do not do it for the seek of religious, but rather for revenge or hatred. Some of the scientist also see religious people as enemies as say wrong this about them as in the author’s interview, a sociologist said that people who believes in both religion and science are suffering from schizophrenia. All these kind of behavior bring in conflict and do not help in science and religion relation. The best way is that both religious people and scientific people should believe that science deal with physical things that can be observer, while Religion deals with faith and spiritual

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