The Historical Reasons Between Natural Science And Religion

The scientific revolution established the new view of the universe. During this period people were finally beginning to define the scientific method and apply it to search for the truth. The scientific ideas of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries overturned many of the most fundamental ideas of the medieval worldview. New knowledge of the physical world provided occasions for challenging the authority of the church and of scripture. The new ideas then began to displace and reshape religious models of thought. Even though the scientific revolution exposed humankind to the truths of the world, the new science posed a potential challenge to religion.

Though religion may be that which determines the goal, it has, nevertheless, learned from science, in the broadest sense, what means will contribute to the attainment of the goals it has set up. But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding.

Natural science and religion are two areas of knowledge that perceive knowledge using ways of knowing differently to pursue its knowledge, an example of that would be Charles Darwin and his theory of natural selection and evolution. In natural science, the theory of natural selection is derived from studying the common features in the bone structure of vertebrate limbs despite its varied use. Therefore, using deductive reasoning, they established the evolution theory which states that humans evolved from apes due to the fact that human and apes have similar features and that human has evolved due to adaptation and survival of genes. However, religion, using not only intuition and emotions but also reason disagrees with the claim of evolution.

Throughout history we can find many instances where religion was strongly opposed to scientific research. For example, the Catholic Church’s objection to Galileo’s defense of Copernicus’ heliocentric model where he offered his observations that he felt furthered the theory that the planets revolved around the Sun. At that time, the belief that the Holy Scriptures were perhaps inaccurate was one thing, but attempting to confirm it as Galileo tried to do was a completely different issue and resulted in Galileo being forbidden by the Church to write or teach his findings. Another example is the opposition to Darwin’s theory of evolution by the majority of the

Religion has influenced an entire range of changes in the elongated history of the world. The alterations that have taken place in the past are clear and concise evidence that the underlying and ultimate influence is religion. Religion has been apart of a plethora number of events in the past because, religion gives humans a clear source of origin of the universe, and carries an everlasting assurance that provides protection and happiness among the permutations in life. Religion also served its purpose in all aspects of life, especially during the events between the 1600’s and 1800’s.

Summer for the Gods concentrates on the Dayton, Tennessee Scopes trial, or "Monkey Trial," of 1925. The trial was over a Tennessee law that banned teaching evolution in public schools. The American Civil Liberties Union protested the law with teacher, John Scopes, who agreed to help. The"trial of the century" brought together two famous political enemies, William Jennings Bryan, who led the anti-evolution crusade, and Clarence Darrow, who was known as the best criminal defense lawyer and evolution supporter. The author presents the history of controversy that led to the trial. Fossil discoveries, the rise of religious fundamentalism, and increased attendance in public high schools influenced the anti-evolution movement due to the

The Scientific Revolution was not intended to be a war on religion and tradition even though it was interpreted as such. The Scientific Revolution, which lasted roughly from 1543 to 1642, was arguably the greatest development in the European intellectual history (Kreis, 2012). It was a revolution in the way people perceived the world. During this era, scientific revolutionaries like Nicholas Copernicus, the Polish astronomer (1473-1543); Descartes, the French philosopher (1596-1650) and Isaac Newton the British mathematician (1642-1727) tried to better understand man and the physical world thereby overturning the authorities of the Church and the scientists and philosophers who preceded them, including Ptolemy, Galen and Aristotle.

The Scientific Revolution generated a dramatic shift for scientist in the early modern European history because they produced new interpretations about the universe and everything on Earth. Such as advancements in mathematics, chemistry, and astronomy which contributed to the amounts of conflicts with long lasting beliefs, both scientific and religious.

The power and the order of the common customs can not bring human beings with the inner peace. As a mysterious power , religion can solve the problem which can not be solved by the science and technology. When the science and knowledge can not explain all the confusion in this world,

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.

Science “aims to save the spirit, not by surrender but by the liberation of the human mind” (Wilson, 7). Both religion and science seek to explain the unknown. Instead of surrendering reasoning with the traditional religion, a scientific approach one takes full authority over it. Being an empiricist, Wilson takes favors the scientific approach to the question: “why are things the way they are?” This question can pose two meanings: How did this happen, and what is the purpose. Traditional religion answers this question with stories, many of which are impossible to prove or disprove, making them arguments of ignorance. These explanations entail the adherent surrender reasoning and put faith in the resolution. According to Wilson these are always wrong (Wilson, 49). Science is the most effective way to learn about the natural world. Religion is merely speculation.

Since the beginning of the intellectual development of mankind, the question of whether there is god or not has been a question that still remains. However, its effects on our way of thinking has been shaped by a number of people, thinkers, priests, scientists so on and so forth. If we were to divide that continuum into two parts, they would be before the enlightenment and after the enlightenment. Namely the times of natural philosophy and times of science since the term produced after the mid eighteenths. Before the enlightenment religion was the core, center pillar of natural philosophy when the medieval Europe was thought. Nevertheless, after that era the

Today, we are living in the time in which every aspect of life is influenced by some form of science. From the scientific revolution of the 17th century through present day, scientists have grown continuously. The impact of science is particularly powerful on traditional religious beliefs. Religion is the belief in the supernatural, the invisible, the sacred, the visually receptive, and the illogical. The belief is many fold, depending on the historical period, geography, culture, and dependent on the content of each religion. It is operated by many rituals depending on the different religious community. From the Latin religion meaning respect for the sacred, divine reverence or duty, the link between man and the divine, people would live and survive these ways with the beliefs of the supernatural powers in which would help people, sometimes synonymous with belief, often defined as spirituality to believe in the supernatural, the sacred or the divine, as well as the ethics, rituals, customs, and institutions associated with these beliefs. Basic notions of religion divide the world into two parts: divine and mundane. Tranquility is normal in human life, and the divine is supernatural. In the face of the divine, people use rituals to show respect and worship and that is the basis of religion. In the most general sense, there is a view that defines religion as the result of all the answers to explain the origin and

In the pages I studied for my third and final presentation, I learned about The Quest for Consciousness. This is most interesting to me because, our conscious state as human beings is what sets us apart from others. We know that we are here on Earth, that we are human, and that there are things outside of this Earth much larger and different than we have imagined. The study of consciousness brings an interesting twist into the relationship between science and religion. Humans standalone from all other creatures because we are conscious, this indicates to some people that there has to be a higher power. When studying the evolution of humans, we find that we are so much more advanced than any other known creature on the planet. This article attempts to explain the relationship between science and religion and the few unexplained things in the universe that prove there must be a higher power.

Are science and religion related? If so, how are they related? What is the importance of them in human lives? I believe, science and religion are related to each other. The relationship between them has been debated for several years. Science is linked to the material, while religion is worried about spirituality (Vikas, 2012). Humans depend on both religion and science not one or the other. In spite of being different from each other, science and religion are related and linked to each other.