Science & religion. Can they cohabit?

[mahnmut]

There's been a recent post on tp about "is science and religion compatible?" I.e. can they coexist?

Well, tell you what. What distinguishes them is critical thinking. Investigation. Self-dissection. It's a merciless process that's at the core of the former and is the complete antithesis of the latter.

Unlike religion or politics, science will mercilessly pursue the evidence with repeated experiments.

Other than that, are they compatible? Well, anything is compatible, we're humans after all. Yesterday I learned that onion is compatible with strawberry jam (or so I was told), but meh. It'd be kinda weird and maybe a little, um, how was the word believers like to use... oh yes, "unnatural" to try.

Comments

[the-rukh.livejournal.com]

As I said in the other thread, when you get religion and religion to cohabit, then you can try science and religion. ;)

[sealwhiskers.livejournal.com]

Yeah..I think the whole "cohabitation question" is silly. I like what underlankers wrote about east and west. They don't meet. (and when they do, it's silly)

[il-mio-gufo.livejournal.com]

I guess, to me, it depends on the type of 'religion.' i mean, isn't science supposed to prove the Bible {for example}?