Religion is about belief, meaning, and purpose. According to the Episcopal
Church, the stories of creation in Genesis should not be understood as historical
and scientific accounts of origins but as proclamations of basic theological truths about
creation. Creation in Holy Scriptures refers to and describes the relationship
between God and all Gods wonderful works. Religious truths are evaluated by an
appeal to authority by contextualization in history, by their philosophical coherence,
even by their psychological and emotional resonance with life and experience.
Science is the study of the material processes, and forces of the natural world.
Science is not about belief, it is about how things work. One cannot believe
in science or believe in evolution. Science is about the exploration of
natural causes to explain natural phenomena. Science is empirical which means that
question of truth are established through experimenting and testing. There are no
absolutes in science; all issues are open to retesting and reconsideration.
(Source: http://www.ncccusa.org/pdfs/evolutionbrochure.pdf)
Science is the attempt to discover, by means of observation, and reasoning based upon it,
first, particular facts about the world, and then laws connecting facts with one another
and (in fortunate cases) making it possible to predict future occurrences. Connected with
this theoretical aspect of scientific technique, which utilizes scientific knowledge to
produce comforts and luxuries that were impossible, or at least much more expensive, in a
pre-scientific era. Religion. Considered socially, is a more complex phenomenon that
science. Each of the great historical religions has three aspects : 1) a Church, 2) a
creed, and 3) a code of personal morals. The relative importance of these three elements
has varied greatly in different times and places.
(Source: Religion and Science.
Michael Ruse. BL 240.2 R87 1997, 3rd floor, Circulation Section)
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