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Science and Religion Can and Do Mix, Mostly

Posted by samzenpus on from the can't-we-all-just-get-along? dept.

coondoggie writes "A recent Rice University study found that in one of the more vitriolic social (and increasingly political) battlegrounds, science v. religion, there is more common ground that most folks believe. In fact, according to the study, only 15% of scientists at major U.S. research universities see religion and science as always in conflict."

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  1. really? by another_twilight · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The more interesting statistic is the percentage of "religious" people who think that there is conflict.

    After having read the article, I am not convinced that the questions asked showed that there was common ground at all. It may well be that scientists recognise that religion and science are orthogonal and therefore do not conflict.

  2. 13th Century Thomas Aquinas on the "conflict." by SexyKellyOsbourne · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Thomas Aquinas, SUMMA THEOLOGICA, 1265 AD: “Among the philosophical sciences one is speculative the other practical [natural philosophy], nevertheless sacred doctrine [Roman Catholicism] includes both; as God, by one and the same science, knows both Himself and His works.”

    This basically states that if you are understanding science properly, you are understanding God's works properly. And conversely, if you understand God's works, you will let science progress to understand God's works, as God and science are one in the same.

    That compromise in thinking eventually led to the Renaissance.