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What is the reality of religion?
Truth of religion is here identified with religious truth understood as knowledge orientated towards the ultimate deepest reality called by various names: God, Dharma, Tao, the Sacred, etc. A religion is true in the sense that it states that the transcendent, supernatural, sacred reality exists.
What is meant by science and religion?
Science is an ‘open belief system’ – the data collected by scientists are open to testing by others. In contrast, religions tend to have ‘closed belief systems’ – religious knowledge is generally regarded as sacred, and should be accepted as is, rather than challenged.
What is the ultimate reality in Christianity?
Plantinga’s idea of Ultimate Reality and Meaning is the traditional Christian theistic concept of God. As Ultimate Reality, God is the unique source of all reality other than God. God is thereby also the source of all meaning: of the world in general and of human life in particular.
What is one way to distinguish between science and religion?
One way to distinguish between science and religion is the claim that science concerns the natural world, whereas religion concerns both the natural and the supernatural. Scientific explanations do not appeal to supernatural entities such as gods or angels (fallen or not),…
Can science and religion coexist?
According to Gould, these two spheres of human need do not overlap, and so religious knowledge systems and scientific knowledge systems can exist side by side. Monotheistic religions which have a belief in one, universal God are compatible with science.
Are science and religion compatible?
Religion and Science are compatible. There are several different lines of argument for the view that religious belief systems and scientific belief systems are compatible. Stephen Jay Gould argued that science and religion were concerned with different aspects of human life which deal with different human needs.
Are science and religion at war?
With the loud protests of a small number of religious groups over teaching scientific concepts like evolution and the Big Bang in public schools, and the equally loud proclamations of a few scientists with personal, anti-religious philosophies, it can sometimes seem as though science and religion are at war.