Science And Religion: The Conflict Between Science Vs. Religion

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HOW IS SCIENCE DIFFERENT FROM RELIGION? HOW ARE THEY SIMILAR?
Historically, religious groups did not show immediate acceptance of some scientific discoveries as supported by Carl Sagan statement in Hawking’s God Delusion, “how is it that hardly any major religion looked at science and concluded this is better than we thought!” [5]The conflict between science and religion was initially demonstrated by how the church’s persecution of Galileo after his publications of how the earth is not the centre of the universe but the sun is. Bowler states that this showed that the church did not want their religious texts to be reinterpreted, just because science states that their beliefs must be wrongs, however science came to authority by challenging most …show more content…

Its beliefs are mainly based on revelations from a “superhuman controlling power” (oxford dictionary) or a personal God.[1] These revelations are believed to be inherited by descendants of each generation in a form of religious text, for example the Bible or spiritually received through prayer. In contrast science, which studies the forces of nature and its development, has beliefs mainly based on the analysis of hard-core evidence and believes in the non-existence of a supernatural power. The denotation of science and religion makes them appear completely incompatible; however, they both to some extent have a similar objective which is to get a better understanding of the universe. On the other hand, the contradictions between the two disciplines have been extant for many decades and with the continuation of the debates between science and religion, it seems inconceivable that they may coexist.
This essay is going to mainly discuss the differences between religion and science. Examples such as the Genesis and Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory and conflicts in medicine are going to be used to demonstrate confrontation and conflicts between the two. The essay is also going to explain how science and religion might be similar. How each discipline has adapted to the changes in the universe and the stages of conflicts will also be

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