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Edited by Mad Max:
7/30/2013 3:10:14 AM
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Are science and religion compatible?
Personally, I find the idea of simultaneous support for both religion and science wholly incompatible. Here's my thought process:
- Scientists support the [url=http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/overview_scientific_method2.gif]scientific method[/url].
- Faith-based religion conflicts with the scientific method, as religion skips/ignores steps in the scientific method.
- One cannot support the scientific method while simultaneously supporting faith-based religion.
One cannot truly support both science and religion; you're compromising your support in one or the other.
Thoughts? Explain your position.
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1 ReplyYou hit the nail on the head IMO. Science and religion are based on two different epistemic theories, which happen to be mutually exclusive. The former is based on some form of empirical and logical analysis (although I don't want to understate the broadness of the philosophies is the philosophy of science). The latter, in general, is based on faith. It is possible to be both in support of religion and science, but I think this would require some amount of cognitive dissonance, since there is no unified epistemic theory which accounts for both science and religion AFAIK.
