Sacks Science Vs Religion Summary

In Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks’ video “Science versus Religion,” Rabbi Sacks talks to three different atheist scientists who are working on the frontline of scientific breakthrough. He talks to them to see if science and religion can agree on certain topics or if they will forever be in conflict. (add more) Neuroscientist, Baroness Susan Greenfield was the first person Rabbi Sacks conversed with. She is a professor at Oxford, currently researching the human conscience and (attempting) to understand how the human conciseness is generated from brain cells. This is a major unanswered question in the field of neuroscience. Scientists, however, are unable to explain the phenomenon of human conciseness because they do not know what they are looking for and are therefore incapable of determining how the human conscience is generated. Religion, on the other …show more content…
They discussed the importance of asking questions and challenging everything. A quote at the heart of science is, “take no ones word for it” is also an important part of Judaism, unlike many other religions. Judaism teaches its children to ask questions and challenge conventional assumptions. It does not want people to have blind or unquestioning faith. Even God wants people to challenge him and ask questions. The difference between science and religion on the (agreed) topic of (asking) questions and challenging everything is the evidence used to answer those questions. Science responds to a question with evidence that has been scientifically proven as actual fact. Religion, and more specifically, the religions of the Bible, also responds to question with evidence but consider the Bible to be a historical text that represents actual events. These events may not have happened as fact but (something) happened and the stories are based on the lesson of what actually