Yaksh ChaudharyAIR 6 · CSE 2021 · 196 wordsTheir whole copy
Opening
Religion is based on faith while science is based on testability and empirical evidence.
Compatibility
Body · points
(1) According to Stephen Gould both are compatible and work in different arenas. Religion gives meaning to life while science gives rational explanation of events. He calls this as NOMA (Non overlapping magisteria Principle)
(2) According to Weber, religious beliefs sometimes give rise to rational actions. Protestant ethic encouraged generation of spirit of capitalism.
(3) According to Steve Bruce science and religion can co-exist but it is technology that undermines the religion since technology provides solution to problems earlier treated by religion.
(4) Both try to uncover hidden meaning (Weber).
Non Compatibility
(1) Richard Dawkins explains that religion basis is faith which is antithetical to the science.
(2) science is based on empirical observation while religion discourages rational outlook.
(3) Dawkins advocates that there is no requirement of religion to explain the things that are leftout by science. Science explains through universalistic perspective while religion through Anthro-Centric view.
Close · a summary
Postmodernist and Phillip Hefner say that both religion and science have been destablised and no one can explain the truth completely.
Hence, sometimes science and religion overlap while othertime they contradict each other.