For decades even hundreds years since human society and different ideologies have been formed, there are two invisible walls separating people from each other, one in philosophy between materialism and mentalism, who have differences in substance of matter and consciousness; the other one between natural science and religion, who disagree with each other on the genesis of the world; the latter is more serious and obvious to be discussed among the history. In the centuries of despotism by religion, people struggles and creeps out of the chaos of mind, clear up their thought enter the new world of natural science. However, the loyal old religious constitution never lets the belief in their dominion have heterodoxy. As the result, the war in ideologies
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Most people claim science is a kind of religion because science has faith in reaching the truth; akin to religion, disciples have faith a God in the heaven where they need to get. However, two faiths have totally two different definitions.
In Coyne’s article, No Faith In Science, he gives us several examples about using the word “faith”:
It is noticeable the definition of “faith” in the third sentence is different from other sentences, it relies on evidence: Penicillin is a medicable medicine and he is confident that the medicine would cure his illness. In the rest of the four statements, people just have a wish-thinking from the script; comparing to medicine, there is absence of evidence to prove its feasibility to achieve it.
In brief, natural science and religion radically cannot merges with each other. For dozens of decade study and debate, scientists, researchers and scholars in both field of religion and science try to break down the wall of estrangement and build up mutual agreement, stop the conflict from both sides. However, visually describe the wall, it has a unique structure, available to collect the force from each side: the wall would be broken if the force from one side is strong enough, but if the force from both side continue, simultaneously or asynchronously, the wall enhances
Most people claim science is a kind of religion because science has faith in reaching the truth; akin to religion, disciples have faith a God in the heaven where they need to get. However, two faiths have totally two different definitions.
In Coyne’s article, No Faith In Science, he gives us several examples about using the word “faith”:
It is noticeable the definition of “faith” in the third sentence is different from other sentences, it relies on evidence: Penicillin is a medicable medicine and he is confident that the medicine would cure his illness. In the rest of the four statements, people just have a wish-thinking from the script; comparing to medicine, there is absence of evidence to prove its feasibility to achieve it.
In brief, natural science and religion radically cannot merges with each other. For dozens of decade study and debate, scientists, researchers and scholars in both field of religion and science try to break down the wall of estrangement and build up mutual agreement, stop the conflict from both sides. However, visually describe the wall, it has a unique structure, available to collect the force from each side: the wall would be broken if the force from one side is strong enough, but if the force from both side continue, simultaneously or asynchronously, the wall enhances