HOLISTIC ACCOUNT OF REALITY
Necessity of an Integration of Science and Religion for the Better Future of Humanity
Keywords:
Science, ReligionAbstract
Science and religion were said to be in conflict exhuming the condemnation
of Galileo and Chardin by religion and the rejection of God as a hypothesis
by La Place. Science, however, became aware of its own limitations by
encountering profound questions about the beginning, evolution and future of
the universe, beginning, evolution and goal of life, and the inability to control
diseases etc. Religion with its dogmatic arrogance in the past dictated a
description of the universe which the sciences had shown to be wrong. Now
the extremist view from the part of science as scientism and from the part of
religion as dogmatism lost their arrogance and became aware of their own
inherent limitations and stopped encroaching the other domain making
category mistakes.
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