The Importance Of Religion And Science

Religion did not clash with science for most of the 6000 years of history because religion can be used to explain those things that science can not explain, or vise versa. The sciences like astronomy, biology, geology, meteorology and psychology superseded religion, according to some people because it was used to understand and explain things that didn’t make sense through religion. The Phiolecus’ and Copernius’ ideas were both seen as impious, in their day because they didn’t see it possible for science to explain what religion couldn’t explain. It was hard for them to believe in something else besides religion. Furthermore, it was hard for them to go against something that they had already been believing before their ideas were introduced.

If religion and science were independent from each other it would be very difficult to explain a lot of things. For example, Langdon Gilkey in the Creationism on Trial he says, “Science asks objective how questions. Religion asks personal why questions.”. Therefore, science can explain how things can happen while religion can explain why something happens. They don’t have to be independent from each other. These two ideas can work together to find answers to many things. Many times use a combination of science and religion to find the answers to the questions of some

For those super religious people, it might be hard to believe something from the scientific world. Furthermore, there are many aspects where religion and science totally don’t agree with each other. Some religious people are not willing to accept the idea of evolution. Also, a lot of times religion goes against science. Many times, religious people don’t allow themselves to embrace religion. They see it as something abnormal. Instead of embracing it they push it away. Science doesn’t embrace it either. Science and religion don’t embrace each other because they are trying to have the last word in everything. Scientist will want to have the last word in an argument and so do the religious people. But, science has a higher chance of proving something because there is evidence unlike in religion. in religion we have to believe what someone wrote a long time ago. In science we still have evidence and proof that can be backed up through their evidence and studies. Some religions don’t accept the fact that this earth was created through science and not the God, the all mighty. Religious people might take the stories that are told in their religion too literal. Galileo, a theist astronomer says, “…it may say things that are quite different from what its bare words signify.” The scriptures from one religion might say something that might be taken too literal while it really means something else. For