I believe that the two sides (religion and science) are opposites and that opposites can in fact attract each other, but extremists, who speak the loudest and make the most drama for the media and the gossips often act as though the two sides cannot be reconciled and block out any opportunity to allow anything else to be …show more content…
Dixon states, “The conflict [whether the earth was round] was not between empirical science and authoritarian religion but rather between differing views within the Catholic Church about how to interpret nature and scripture, especially when they seem to disagree” (18). We live in such a world where religious and scientific communities seem to almost always constantly at war with each other, disrespecting the other opinion as soon as it is expressed. The extremists are convinced that the other side consists entirely of short-sighted loons or the spawn of Satan sent to misguide their poor, innocent children, all the while declaring themselves as “enlightened” and automatically disregarding anything the others have to say, even if it stands on solid