science and religion

science and religion

There has always been a conflict between science and religion and the problem still remains nowadays. The two differentiate in their distinct methodologies of searching for knowledge and belief. Science refers to a system of acquiring knowledge based on scientific method, it attempts to collect accurate information about the shared reality and to model it in a way that can be used to make reliable. They have concrete and quantitative predictions about events, everything has an hypothesis and has reasons to prove it. Science gains their knowledge through scientific method: testing hypotheses to develop theories through elucidation of facts or evaluation by experiments. It develops theories of the world which best fit the observed physical observed evidence. It can be categorized into two major types of sciences: human science and natural science and it relies mainly on the empirical evidence.

Religion is a set of beliefs and is related to both the personal practices related to communal faith and to group rituals and communication stemming from shared conviction. Theologians believe in the omnipotent power that God has, they put faith on God and use religion as a tool to satisfy their unanswerable questions and desire to know. Some religious people maintain that religious knowledge is absolute and infallible. However, the knowledge each person believes in varies as religious knowledge varies from religion and each individual. Science tends to be more tangible while religion is more imperceptible according to senses.

According to Reshdie’s quotation from “Is Nothing Sarced?” he states that religion gives us a contradictory idea of being both diminutive and special. For example we are often told by that how important we are and the reason that we were chosen. This makes us feel important and convince us that we are actually part of the religion. Also, religion provides us answer to the unanswerable, where it addresses us to ambiguous questions.

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