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What is the difference between Science and Religion?

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Barry Mclean

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Answered Feb 19, 2021

Science and religion are two words apart but can be quite confusing. Science talks about the physical and the nature of the earth, while religion talks about the natural and supernatural. Scientific knowledge is derived from experiments, where the hypothesis is formed, and the test is carried out to see how true the hypothesis is, while religion is not gotten from experiments.

People who practice religion believe there is only one true God who made heaven and earth. Science cannot explain what happens in the spiritual realm. Religion also believes in supernatural beings such as angels; science disregard this information because there is no theory to back it up.

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Answered Feb 03, 2021

A lot of people often become confused when they need to learn more about science and religion. When you are referring to science, you mean to say that this is something that will be connected to the world in general, the world as a whole. All of the details that may be needed to know why the world has started in the first place may become available through science.

Religion, on the other hand, is something that can deal with the natural and supernatural. This means that there are some things in religion that cannot be explained by science because they are considered to be impossible if they would try to be explained through scientific facts.

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Answered Jan 22, 2021

Religion and science are words that cause a lot of misunderstanding in today's world. A plain and straight forward difference is that science talks about the natural world while religion talks about the natural and supernatural world.

All scientific knowledge is gotten from experimental, where a hypothesis is formulated, and the experiments are carried out to test the hypothesis, while the religious knowledge is not gotten from experiments but is concerned with the spiritual world.

In the religious aspect, it is believed that the supernatural affects the natural. Supernatural beings such as angels or gods do not appeal to the scientific world. Scientists do not believe there is a god because there is no theory to explain it.

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Answered Jan 20, 2021

Science and religion are two ways to explain phenomenons in regards to the world around us. Some people say it is fact vs faith, but there are many differences between the two. Science requires every idea to have an explanation. This is done through experimentation or much research.

Religion is an idea that believes that one God (or for some religions) many Gods created the world. With science, it proves that there are many forces that control things around us. Religion believes that God is that force.

Examples of science including biology, physics, and chemistry. Examples of religion is Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism.

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Answered Jan 19, 2021

The belief in God rules religion, and some religions have more than one God, but for the most part, there is only one God, and he is the one to worship. Religious beliefs and according to the bible, God created the world in six days. Many different books serve as a guide for different religious groups.

For example, Jewish people follow the Torah, the Buddhists follow Tipitaka, and Islam has two major sacred books: the Quran and the Hadith. Science, on the other hand, is separate from religious beliefs, and it is a subject based on logic and reason.

Religion is focused on belief, while science is based on proof. According to science, the world was created because of the Big Bang Theory. This concept states that the universe began in a rapid expansion about 13.7 billion years ago, and it has seen several incarnations since then. Instead of relying on the bible for moral guidance, science relies on research to answer the most prominent questions about the universe.

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W. Wright, Biology student, Biology student, Astoria

Answered Jan 14, 2021

A lot of people may have some issues in understanding science and religion especially if they would like to believe in both. When you say science, you are referring to the study of the natural world. You are looking into things that are happening as is. When you say religion, you are going to be focusing on the more spiritual side of things. Religion may sometimes deal with the spiritual and the supernatural.

The two can be complementary but there are also times when they would clash against each other. A lot of religious organizations have stated that people should not feel that science and religion are not interconnected because they are. People just need the right balance to be sure.

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Answered Jan 12, 2021

Religion refers to an absolute faith or belief in a spiritual reality. It entails a particular system of belief about humans, the universe, nature, and at least a deity or god. Religion also refers to the rituals or practices pertaining to a particular belief.

As there are so many religions in the world, they all have different morals, beliefs, ethics. Most religions have one thing in common that is to connect their followers to the realm of the spirit so that they can have access to spiritual things. While it is true that some of these religions speak more on faith, others emphasize more on some things people need to practice.

Science, on the other hand, refers to a particular branch of learning that deals with systematic and measurable principles. A body of knowledge collected through science is subject to analysis for approval or disapproval. This means there is nothing like absolute knowledge about anything in science.

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