science - religion

is a clash that has shown only that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually 'grasp' reality.

The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually 'grasp' reality. Alan Watts

is a set of domains with entirely different jobs. Scientific beliefs help us predict and control events in space and time but have no right to overstep its bounds and disavow God simply because religion previously overstepped its own bounds and claimed explanatory powers properly belonging to science.

nowadays since the development of modern science, religious beliefs and scientific beliefs do different jobs. scientific beliefs help us predict and control events in space and time. . . . religious oversteps its bounds when it picks a quarrel with science, as when the christian clergy first picked a quarrel with galileo and then with darwin. . science oversteps its bounds when it tells us we have no right to belive in god now that we have better explanations of the phenomena which god was previously used to explain' (rorty lecture).

is a distinction whereby science is void of the factor of meaning; religion is missing the factor of empiricism.

My interests drew me in different directions. On the one hand I was powerfully attracted by science, with its truths based on facts... on the other hand I was fascinated by everything to do with comparative religion. [. . . ] In science I missed the factor of meaning... and in religion, that of empiricism. Carl Jung

is a false distinction representing two non-overlapping fields. Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.

Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops. Rudolf Virchow

is a false distinction. for science and faith exclude one another.

There can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another. Rudolf Virchow

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