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Science and Religion: Uncompromising war?

A critique “God, Science, and Imagination” by Wendell Berry is a bombardment review on “Without God” by Steven Weinberg. The author refutes the claim – nonexistence of God by Steven Weinberg citing everyone has his/her opinion to put forward and the essay “Without God” is a mere opinion of Steven. The author is right that everyone has his/her opinion about God and science and it a never ending debate, however, everyone should respect the opposing ideas and they should not be hurting each others. While the author criticizes about Prof. Weinberg’s opinion, he overlooks the achievements and progression human passed through from scientific discoveries.

It is always better to cite anything with third person prospectus. The author condemns the way Weinberg talked about religion while mentioning that he didn’t want to hurt anyone but fairer view recognizes that Weinberg, being as a physicist, has more to contribute to science than religion and his approach not to hurt the feeling of theists is appreciable. Why would a physicist support about the unknown fact about …show more content…
There are certain things which cannot be just proved by science and there are other things which cannot be just disproved by religion. It means neither the dogmatism of fundamentalist of religion has physical evidences that can be proved or disproved nor the bigotry of fundamentalist of science has power of imagination that can realize the irreducible God. Forgetting those dogmas, we can live in the world which can have science and religion hand in hand. Science and religion both has its own significance. One cannot ignore the power of imagination of religious belief and the other cannot condone the achievement of discovery as we no more in Stone

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