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4 ups, 4y
No. It is a myth that religion and science are opposites, but the truth is they are one in the same. For most monotheistic religions, it is believed that God created science. I recommend you read teachings written by Saint Augustine of the Catholic Church. His writings will help you understand
3 ups, 4y
Not at all. Many of the great scientists in history were religious. I myself am a Christian and my profession is engineering so I have a very strong scientific background. Engineering is applied science after all. From my religious background, I believe that God would not have given us the great minds that we have and never give us something to use them on...much of science is the best brain teaser material that we could ever explore, I think it's great.

Never stop wondering, never stop exploring, and stay curious my friends!
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Just look at Capernicus, Galileo, Pasteur, Mendel et al.
1 up, 4y
Definitely compatible
1 up, 4y
In its most basic form all religions were attempts to explain how and why the world works the way it does. So, you could say those religious beliefs are a form of science. Why is there thunder and lightning? Because there's a god up on that mountain throwing lightning bolts down at us and another god stomping his feet because he's not happy about it.

Over the centuries we have figured our more and more causalities and we can explain more and more things and we found no gods interfering with it (directly). That could mean there are no gods at all or that any gods that do exist are just further away from our lives down here on earth. Many religious scientists of the last few hundred years believed that god created the world and the universe to work on their own without divine interference and all they were doing is figure out how he did it. The phrase "finding god's signature/fingerprints" was used a lot in that regard.

So, in such an abstract form I think religion and science can actually go together. How a biologist can still believe that a god created all animals alive and extinct or how a physicist can still believe the earth is flat, however, just baffles me. I just hope we're past the time where people would interpret their findings to fit their narrative instead of trying to actually find the truth.
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1 up, 4y
Incompatible how?

As belief systems held by someone? No. Religion and science are not mutually exclusive belief systems, you can believe in science and religion at the same time.

As a source of truth? Yes. Religion can't reveal the vast intricacies of knowledge science can.
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1 up, 4y
if you have seen Disenchantment itll tell you, but me, heh I don't really know
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0 ups, 4y
No fricking way.
0 ups, 4y
They are, but in the same time they are not. Incompatibilities arise when people based on religion try to debunk some proven scientific facts. Darwin's evolution theory being one of the most famous examples of that. Flat earthers also based their proves on the Bible. But in the same time, some important scientific development did benefit from religion. For a long time, most scientists could be found in the monastery. Medical science in particular was known to be practiced by monks and nuns. In the Dutch language (I do not know about English or other languages), nurses are often called "zuster" which literally means "sister". The pronoun to refer a nun by is also "sister". Yes, that ain't a coincidence, that came from the time that nurses were most of all nuns.
Perhaps the reason that in RPG games the healers are quite often clerics is based on this fact too.

Of course, we should also note the philosophies behind religions differ per religion, and most religion have multiple versions and then the philosophies could also differ on vital points. Some religions are stricter in denying scientific facts than others, and some even embrace a lot of scientific facts as basis on their philosophies. The founder of the Scientology religion was even an author of science fiction stories. Now I'm not saying I know Scientology very well or its full background, but you if its founder was against science in general, he'd likely also not be in science fiction... But I could be wrong on that one.

Most of the "incompatibilities" began when scientists found prove of some stories stated by the church were in fact wrong. These stories could damage the power of the church. The question is, is religion or lust for power the reason of the "incompatibility". We all know the church doesn't have a clean history in this department.

So science and religion being incompatible is not exactly a lie, but not exactly the truth either.
1 up, 4y
Many people say that the big bang theory and God is opposing each other, but one of my friends said that God created the big bang, which made sense to me.
0 ups, 4y
No, at least I know one religion that is accepting of all, (not advocating for it, I'm actually an Aethist, but love to learn) Hinduism actually believes that all religions (this includes science) have some truth in it
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To get a better idea of the relation of them together. You’d likely would want to read Plotinus, Pythagorus, Gnosticism and other metaphysic’s. Find the 1927 book the universal one and other field theory. You can find science, anatomy and astronomy in religious stories. Danny wilten was making videos about all this in book and art before he joined a rose or theosophy branch. Stopped making them a few years ago.
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Hermetics another old popular one that help bridge them both or read into occult science lol. Just means hidden, religion is one thing, what the church does is another thing. could never forgive the church for the amount of damage and suppression they did to history, education, humanity let alone claiming dominion over animals
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no, all the stuff in the bible that people claim are "AnTi-ScIeNcE" are obviously metaphorical. I don't know why anyone would fail to realize that such stories are symbolic.
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