"There is no conflict between religion and science"

[pinoy_09]

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Your right about Science. Wrong about Religion.
Religion deals with the truth. The truth is being hidden because of science.

Whatever truth that religion deals with, it's not the truth that I know.

Please share with us what kind of truth it is that you speak of?

[florida.blanca]

so it's true that we were created out of dust? so funny that our body is mainly composed of water but religion says we were created from dust! such an anti scientific claim from nothing else, but religion!

[sweetpotato]

Both pursue knowledge using different methodologies.
What we need is a commitment to mutual respect.

[azzkicker]

aw sa akong schedule sauna dli man ma conflict.. pasar man gni ko ana..

depende ra jud na sa prinsipyo..

[pinoy_09]

Is there a conflict between religion and science? Oh, definitely. It's even raging till today. Although Pope John Paul II basically accepted Darwin's Theory of Evolution and a lot of Catholics (e.g. Fr. George Coyne, Dr. Kenneth Miller) and evangelical Christians (Dr. Francis Collins) have defended Darwin, a lot of hardcore, fanatical fundamentalists are still clinging on to the old-earth creationism or its new incarnation, "Intelligent Design"

Intelligent Design... just a way for the religious to make old-earth creationism sound scientific.

[hitch22]

so it's true that we were created out of dust? so funny that our body is mainly composed of water but religion says we were created from dust! such an anti scientific claim from nothing else, but religion!

Beg your pardon but I wouldn't go around defending science and stating something like that. A religious person can use your statement and say that the raw materials that constituted our bodies came from star dust, leftovers from a supernova...and scientists will agree with this statement. But I get what you mean though.

Here's where I agree with you, in principle. Science is secular...or at least tries to be. But that doesn't exempt scientists from invoking God when they're at the edge of their wits...the "God of the Gaps" argument. For example, when Newton couldn't explain why stars wouldn't be falling into each other, he invoked God's active intervention. It took Einstein's Relativity to explain why that is so, how gravity operated without the need for Divine Intervention. Oh, Newton, by the way, didn't believe in the Trinity or that Jesus was the Son of God. He subscribed to an anti-Trinitarian belief called Arianism. Einstein was largely an agnostic or a Spinozist (if you can call it that)...but he definitely rejected the idea of a personal God.

The secularization of Science was captured brilliantly by one of the greatest French astronomers, Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace. The story goes that Laplace went in state to Napoleon to accept a copy of his work. Here's how that famous question and answer went:

Napoleon: Laplace, they tell me you have written this large book on the system of the universe, and have never even mentioned its Creator.

Laplace replied bluntly: Je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là. (I had no need of that hypothesis).

The translation sounds a bit haughty if it's done word-for-word. I think he meant that his theory didn't require that assumption.

Likewise, science seeks natural explanation. It doesn't use divine intervention to explain phenomenon. If science can't explain something, they leave it at that...un-answered. I'm perfectly alright with having un-answered questions than having un-founded speculations.

[SioDenz]

science concludes with the use of the scientific method!

religion only believes on what their eyes cannot see! that an invisible flying spaghetti monster created man out of dust

so funny!

Science CONCLUDES that some things in Religion are Not True BUT Scientist will be the first one to Admit that their Science dont have the capability to explain Everything - MUCH FUNNIER

[LeeLeePot]

and so the battle between believers and non believers begins again.

[THE KID]

i think mo gawas ra ang conflict depende sa interests sa both sides........

[jinkazama92]

Whatever truth that religion deals with, it's not the truth that I know.

Please share with us what kind of truth it is that you speak of?

lol. Its hard to explain.
Im gona show you this link. (Although im guessing you wont even read it).

Is This What God Purposed? - Jehovah's Witnesses Official Web Site

It is a book entirely posted in the internet. Hope it enlightens you.
Try to browse the chapters. You may find the answers you are looking for.