Ah, so living in the real world, and observing people's actual reasons for doing things is irresponsible.
I guess I didn't realize you were just attempting to tilt at philosophical windmills. Proceed with your contentless dialectic that will continue to be relevant inside your own head, and utterly irrelevant in the Islamic world this article discusses.
You're false conflict in someone's mind is a concrete threat to the lives of professors in Pakistan. The rejection of the Holocaust and spread of old earth creationism in Iran. The lack of respect and local prospects for those studying hard science and the consequent dominance of Islamic studies over all other subjects at the University level throughout the Muslim world.
If people in power make decisions based on a belief that science must be subjugated to religion, are science and religion in conflict? Yes.
You impressively miss the point, likely due to the fact that you live and work in a secular country.
In the Islamic world the split that allowed science and religion (and governance) to become independent never occurred. What we take for granted, a secular society, would be considered anathema by those in power in Islamic countries. You claim an objective truth that science and religion are separate, this does not matter when the power structure of a country is built around the concept that science, and everything else, are answerable to religion.
It's nice that you make this distinction that those who are "SERIOUS" about science and religion see them as separate. It is a distinction utterly irrelevant to this discussion, since more or less the entire Muslim power structure is in the non-"SERIOUS" camp. That is the point.
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Ah, so living in the real world, and observing people's actual reasons for doing things is irresponsible.
I guess I didn't realize you were just attempting to tilt at philosophical windmills. Proceed with your contentless dialectic that will continue to be relevant inside your own head, and utterly irrelevant in the Islamic world this article discusses.
You're false conflict in someone's mind is a concrete threat to the lives of professors in Pakistan. The rejection of the Holocaust and spread of old earth creationism in Iran. The lack of respect and local prospects for those studying hard science and the consequent dominance of Islamic studies over all other subjects at the University level throughout the Muslim world. If people in power make decisions based on a belief that science must be subjugated to religion, are science and religion in conflict? Yes.
You impressively miss the point, likely due to the fact that you live and work in a secular country. In the Islamic world the split that allowed science and religion (and governance) to become independent never occurred. What we take for granted, a secular society, would be considered anathema by those in power in Islamic countries. You claim an objective truth that science and religion are separate, this does not matter when the power structure of a country is built around the concept that science, and everything else, are answerable to religion. It's nice that you make this distinction that those who are "SERIOUS" about science and religion see them as separate. It is a distinction utterly irrelevant to this discussion, since more or less the entire Muslim power structure is in the non-"SERIOUS" camp. That is the point.