I am not convinced that religion and science are completely independent subjects. According to one reporter at the Guardian, however, they are entirely separate issues and should not be combined.
Her case is simple: religion is subjective, it involves personal belief; science is objective, it involves fact.
First off, I don't buy this. Scientists will be quick to explain that even scientific fact is somewhat of a faith-work. The whole issue of the philosophy of science is deciding at what point we should accept anything as fact? In other words, how many observations of the sun going up and down makes it a fact that the sun goes up and down?
But that's not my real problem.
The bigger issue is that religion and science are in some ways incompatible (perhaps not in all). If brain chemistry causes certain behavior in humans, it is hard to say they are sinners when science can give us a completely material explanation. Though this tension might be murky at best, religion and science are still not completely different departments.
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