Science Vs Religion Essay

I do not believe that science and religion are completely irreconcilable, though this balanced relationship may not be achieved in this lifetime or the next. This society has encouraged a competitive “us” vs. “them” world view, where your opinion is always right and anyone who disagrees is automatically wrong, removing the option to even consider or compromise with the other point of view. With that being said, in a perfect world where respect is given to both sides and compromise is common, I favor the belief that science and religion can be reconciled to complement each other, with two complementary books: “…the book of nature [science] and the book of scripture [the Bible]” (Dixon 17). There in fact are times in the past when science and religion have been at peace (Larson 21; Dixon …show more content…
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