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Religion and Science unification
Religion and Science unification

Author(s): Spyridon I. Kakos
Subject(s): Philosophy, Theology and Religion, Religion and science , Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Science
Published by: Ideas Forum International Academic and Scientific Association
Keywords: religion; science; science-religion controversy; science philosophy; religion philosophy; God; theism; logic; dogmatism; materialism;

Summary/Abstract: Speaking for God has been part of religion for many years. However, science has come in the past few years to question that role or even our very ability to speak about God in general. My goal is to show that dogmatism, under any form, is wrong.And even though dogmatism had for a long time been associated with ill-intentioned religion, nowadays science has replaced religion in the throne of doctrinaire thinking. The point of the paper is to illustrate that one-way thinking is never correct– most of the times a combination of science and religion, measurements and theoretical thinking, logic and intuition, is required to draw a conclusion about the most important philosophical questions. The paper establishes that exact sciences can be very useful, but they also have limits. The Religion-vs-Science problem is a pseudo-problem; logic and evidence can easily be used to defend theistic views. Both science and religion use common tools and methods and can be unified in a new way of thinking. This paper sets the foundations on how this can be achieved. The conclusion is that science and religion both complete our knowledge for the world,our understanding of humans and our purpose in life. Speaking about God is part of science as well as of religion. Only when we think of God as theologians and as scientists at the same time can we fully reach Him.

  • Issue Year: 1/2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 78 - 95
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: English