The Ethos Of Scientism And Postmodernism

Faith Matters. (2010, April 02). Scholar says that religion and Science can coexist. Lab Activity: Chapter1. Podcast retrieved from

Before the scientific revolution, controversy, alienation, and even imprisonment was what many new developing thinkers faced. Proposed ideas that challenged the teachings of the churches sparked controversy. Their early negative response has since then led many to believe religion clashes with science and obstructs the understanding of the natural world. However, faith and knowledge have been wrongly separated into two different groups and their cohesiveness has been over looked. This will be examined through selected texts. Both science and religion provide different ideas that together, contribute towards the better understanding of the natural world.

  Religion and Science: Competitors or Companions. Can Religion and Science coexist each other or not? This is a good topic for philosophy.

Science and religion can coexist because people must understand that science and religion are two ways of understanding and they answer different questions. Today, scientific and religious leaders agree that science and religion represent different realities in life. Furthermore, based on the SF theory scientist also believe that religion is significant in upholding stability and solidarity in society such as it does in the scientific community by upholding moral guidance. Finally, based on the SC theory in history, we have observed that some of the most religious systems have also encouraged scientific progress. Therefore, religious leaders understand that religious restriction prohibits development and scientific growth to the point that the most powerful leaders have encouraged scientific

The most popular view between the conflict of science and religion is incompatibility, that is the view that science and religion cannot exist together in harmony. In this view, the two are significantly different approaches to knowledge. Science depends solely on experimental verification, while religion depends strongly on faith. Advocates of this perspective say that history proves true of the

Accepting the compatibility between science and religion is a tactic used by those who instinctively fear that a manifest conflict between the two areas would endanger the future of science. They are worried about the possibility that scientists would not receive any financial support or that science classes in schools might be replaced with hours of religion. A huge number of atheist scientists are aware of the negative role, that they have irrational ideas supported by the religion of the future of science. If there is an unreported truth, is that science and religion are incompatible, not in the sense that they cannot coexist in the human mind, but in the sense that there can be no consistency between the two forms of addressing reality. However, attempts to reconcile science and religion do not stop, and that is because the reconciliation never really occurs.

The method by which science attempts to understand the world is different from the method by which religion follows (speaking of both very broadly, but I think aptly). The scientist must be able to “accurately describe a large class of observations on the basis of a model that contains only a few arbitrary elements, and it must make definite predictions about the results of future observations (Hawking, 9)." In other words, the scientist must be able to find, of all the information available to them, the appropriate elements of information by which observe, or help make sense of, a certain phenomena. So a biochemist,

Question:1. Compare and contrast religion with science from a sociological viewpoint. Is science just another form of religion, with people like physicist Stephen Hawking among its high priests or mullah? Are science and religions simply both similar social constructions? In your response to this question, specifically consider both how irrational social factors influence everything, and the relationship between faith and proof.

"For science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary. Religion, on the other hand, deals only with evaluations of human thought and action; it cannot justifiably speak of facts and relationships between facts…Now, even though the realms of religion and science in themselves are clearly marked off from each other, nevertheless they exist between the two strong reciprocal relationships and dependencies. Though religion may be that which determine the goals, it has, nevertheless, learned from science, in the broadest sense, what means will contribute to the attainment of the goals it has set up.” - Albert Einstein (1940)

It is logical to conclude that science and religion are concerned with different kinds of knowledge. Science deals with facts that can be observed and measured. It focuses on the aspects of life that are within the grasp of human reason. Religion, by contrast, deals with spiritual matters that cannot be observed with the physical senses. One can have feelings about the existence of God and heaven, but one cannot use scientific methods to prove that these things exist. Whereas science is related to the thought processes of the rational mind, religion is based on faith. By definition, faith is something that cannot be understood rationally.

There is no need of conflict, but remember that they are concerned with different aims, objectives and experiences. It is also dangerous to place prescriptive labels on science or religion. Both science and religion have a part to play in our life.

This debate between whether science and religion are compatible has been going on for decades. Science and religion conflict with each other for many things, such as for how the universe began. People have mixed views on the topic. Some people think there’s too much conflict for them to be compatible, whilst others think they can be in harmony. This is quite a polemical theme and that’s why in this essay I’m going to clarify how far I agree with the following statement: ‘There is too much conflict between science and religion for them to be compatible,’ by presenting all sides of the argument.

introduction Religion and Science are very compatible; they both provide knowledge and understanding of human nature and the world in which humankind live. Galileo According to Galileo, there are two kinds of truth. One is the truth acquires through intellects, experience, and vital evidence. The second is the truth acquired through bible teachings. The bible is meant to explain topics that are beyond human reasoning, things that cannot be proven by science. Accordingly, religious truth is strongly based on faith; it depends on the teachings of a divine being and not on evidence. Science, on the other hand, contributes knowledge on things that cannot be literally explained by the Bible; every statement made in science must be proven with facts. Nonetheless, these different truths

Distinguishing science from non-science or religion is generally an easy matter, as the two rarely seem to make claims to be scientific. When they do make claims of being scientific, this becomes known as pseudoscience. Even so, it is useful to recognize the distinctions, as science doesn’t always clearly do so. For the boundary between science and religion, a majority of the cases can be separated well through the verificationistic view. While empirical matters are primarily dealt with science, spiritual matters are primarily dealt with religion because they cannot be objectively and empirically observed.

Science and religion have not always peacefully coexisted. There have been many issues where scientific discovery and religious belief have clashed. Religion is based on ancient belief passed down through generations. As humans discovered more and more about themselves, they found that many of the things that religion told could not true. This caused an incredible crisis between the pious religious and the scientific world, especially in the Western world where Christianity dominated society, and where these scientific discoveries were being made. It was difficult for people at first to believe in God and at the same time except these new scientific findings that negated many things that religion had told them.