The Debate Between Science and Religion

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Science and religion has always been in debate since mankind's sanity.while sceince has proved itself with logical truths, religion has thrived with its people's faith and customs. Can both survive together?
While the mere existence and origin of the human kind has made us belive on multiple God theories with various supernatural beings playing its part, does it directly deny the Darwin theory where all mankind are the successor of apes. Or is it that the Big Bang theory is just a redundant theory of all scientific research.
So lets head back to where all life started. Times when our ancestors lived in caves, hunted for food in berries and trees. A natural phenomenon would start maybe a thunder and our ancestors would look up at the sky with awe fearful eyes and hands holding in submission. There were times when the earth shook and even worst times when sea of water came flooding taking with it his shelter,food and freinds away. He started to feel and realize and associate his own life and fate in the hands of some far supreme invisible power which he gave the name of God. And this is how God was Born. But what about man's origin? Weren't we going to talk about Adam and Eve being created by God and the breaking up of paradise and all hell loosing because of a apple? No . We are talking about a long essay here with logical thoughts and rational words to choose from. And more ever i am an atheist.
The basis of science is believed to have been observation and on experiences that man has lived centuries observing the natural phenomenons, experiencing of varied types. Yet religion is considered and believed to be older than science. Was it that God created man or is it that he was obliged to let him being created by man.
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...ith. Just like a scientist can be a religious guy so can a cleric use his sceintifically developed bike . While our life cannot be improved by any God, so does science cannot fill the gap of people's religion and faith. Each have their own purpose and place. It only becomes hapazard when both are inappropiately misplaced and overlapped. When sceintific theories are misnomed by religious dogma. Or when a persons religious space and way of living is violated with anti-religion blames and racist stance in the name of sceince.
Do they answer the same questions ? What is important is do they make us ask our purpose and how much are they successful of making our life more purposeful and meaningful. I will leave that to my readers to ponder upon. As someone had said-
"Religion is not to be discussed and urgued upon but is to be followed and belived" .
Who the mortal am i !

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