The Balance of Science and Religion

[IsaidwhatIsaid]

Re: The Balance of Science and Religion

@aqua70

1.Science and religion are very different things, only the ignorant pen them against each other. Religion is a spiritual journey, it is there to better a society through rules such as not lying, hurting others, not stealing etc. It is also a way of navigating through life when things get rough, through prayer or meditation. Note, I am not including extremists here.

Science is there to understand how things work and how they came to be. Yes religion has its own take on our existence but 2.evolutionary biology is just ONE aspect of this field. The word science encompasses vast fields from embryology to geology which have no relation with religion or its principals. Also IsaidwhatIsaid,** 3. you are lumping together all religions as one which in itself is ignorant.** 3.Oversimplifying is hardly scientific and the world is not so black and white that people shun one and only accept the other, at least the ones that understand the difference between the two know better.

1. Yes, they are. They have two different functions in society but sometimes religious beliefs and science contradict each other which creates issues.
2. No sh*t.
3. No, I am not. I am not saying that the general philosophies and beliefs of all religions are going to be the exact same. But, cross-culturally religion has had a general function in society and it has been to explain phenomena that humans could not explain themselves at the time and to provide a moral compass.
   From the OP: “Religion itself came about to explain natural phenomena that could not be explained centuries ago and to create a moral code for people to follow.”
4. Whomst is telling you to shun one or the other? The point of the discussion is how people are going to balance their faith and new scientific knowledge that might contradict what they believe in. It is not just evolutionary biology that might come out with new information that will contradict people’s faith. Galileo’s take on heliocentrism created a lot of controversy among the Catholic church at the time because they claimed it was contrary to scripture and he ended up in a lot of trouble.