The Integration of Science and Religion Essay -- Philosophy Religion E

The Integration of Science and ReligionAt first glance, umteen facets of wisdom and religion seem to be in direct negate with each other. Because of this, I have generally kept them confined to split up spheres in my life. I have continuously thought that science is found on reason and cold, hard facts and is, therefore, objective. crude ideas have to be proved many times by different people to be legitimate by the wider scientific community, data and observations are taken with extreme precision, and through and through journal publications and papers, scientists are held accountable for the accuracy and integrity of their work. All of these factors contributed to my dupe of science as objective and completely truthful. Religion, on the other hand, always seems fairly subjective. Each person has their own personal relationship with God, and counterbalance though people often worship as a larger community with common core beliefs, it is fine for one persons understanding of the Bible and God to be different from anothers. some other reason that Christianity seems so subjective is that it is centered around God, but we cannot rationally prove that He actually exists (nor is obtaining this proof of great interest to well-nigh Christians). There are also more concrete clashes, such as Genesis versus the big bang theory, evolution versus creationism, and the finality of death versus the Resurrection that take me to separate science and religion in my life. Upon closer examination, though, many of these unpatterned differences between science and Christianity disappeared or could at least be reconciled. by and by studying them more in depth, science and Christianity both seem less(prenominal) rigid and inflexible. It is now clear that intertwined with the data, logic, and laws of scien... ...eveloped, and especially during the Enlightenment, God and religion were relegated to a lesser role because it was thought that science could explain everythin g. Now, though, the farther we inclination into science, the more questions we find that can only be answered by religion. When science and Christianity are both studied and well understood, especially in the mount of their limitations, it is possible to integrate them, or at least for them to complement each other, in my view of the world.Works CitedArmstrong, Karen. A History of God. New York Ballantine Books, 1993.Armstrong, Karen. In the Beginning. New York Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.Barbour, Ian G. Religion and Science. New York Harper Collins Publishers, 1997.Maas, A.J. Resurrection of Jesus Christ. New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia. 20 April 2003 .