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The Paradoxical Relationship of Religion and Science - Pew Research Center
News Type: Event — Seeded on Fri Nov 6, 2009 11:52 AM EST
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While religion and science usually strive to answer different questions, the battles over issues such as evolution and the study of consciousness show that they also sometimes tread on each other's turf. So far, at least in the United States, both faith and scientific endeavor have survived these clashes. And if the past is any guide, the United States will likely continue to be a nation of both high levels of religious commitment and high regard for scientific achievement.
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Despite instances of hostility toward religion and high levels of disbelief in the scientific community, however, science and religion have often operated in tandem rather than at cross-purposes.
...astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus and biologist Gregor Mendel...were men of the cloth. Others, including Galileo, physicist Sir Isaac Newton and astronomer Johannes Kepler, were deeply devout and often viewed their work as a way to illuminate God's creation. Even in the 20th century, some of the greatest scientists, such as Georges Lemaitre (the Catholic priest who first proposed what became known as the Big Bang theory) and physicist Max Planck (the founder of the quantum theory of physics), have been people of faith....[as well as] geneticist Francis Collins, the founder of the Human Genome Project...
...Albert Einstein, for instance, once said that "science without religion is lame and religion without science is blind." And the late evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould famously referred to this separate but complementary relationship as "nonoverlapping magisteria."
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#1 - Fri Nov 6, 2009 11:56 AM EST{"commentId":10531781,"authorDomain":"rainbowwarrior"}
"God is a concept to measure your fame" John Lennon... as the song goes, he didn't believe in lots of things, "I just believe in me!"
I have always tried to imagine a world without religion... at least the ones we have been stuck with by the dominant cultures and societies. Being adopted by the Lakota Soixe way back in 1972, because my best friend in high school was a pure blood... has had a profound influence on me and how I see the world through Native and First Nation's eyes... But I have a BS with heavy math & science, so I agree.
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