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maybe because they contradict each other, or maybe because the catholic church killed medieval and renaissance scientists
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Because they are a married couple (both coexist and have goals, hopes & dreams).
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Because they are a married couple (both coexist and have goals, hopes & dreams).
They don't have as much in common anymore (one basis everything on study & fact, the other on hope & prayer, though both used to be equally ignorant. So ignorant they practically didn't exist).
The sex isn't good anymore (they used to experience exciting things symotaneously but now its always who is right or who is better for satisfaction).
Plus they're raising kids now (have followers to attempt to convince that their way is right but most times just confuse them because the followers always get 2 sides, both that sound so certain).
They have contemplated divorce (finally calling it quits for either would most likely cause the worst war).
They will just stay together for the kids (they can rely on the future to try and do a better job forever and always).
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@esophagus they're incompatible and they think they're each a stupid head.
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We'll initially the whole point of science was to better understand they way God has created all things. Then some people came along with their anti-God agenda and started making claims based on pseudo-science that violated God and his word. Since then a enormous amount of money and time has been spent in the name of science to try and debunk religion and God. Do you ever wonder how much money is spent on trying to find life on other planets (all speculation, all the time)? Or why evolutionary reports use such speculative language ("we think", "we believe", "it's possible that", "there must have been"...)? People aren't using true science to discover, they are cramming their agenda into compromised scientific approaches to arrive at conclusions they set out to establish (the peppered moths, Lucy, National Geographic).
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i dont think they were ever really meant to get along. where there is doubt, there is faith.
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I don't think that Religion and Science have trouble getting along, it's the very extreme believers that don't. Albeit, the last 400 hundred years Religion has a history of condemning scientific progress and as science progressed Religion polarized its beliefs into such small dogmatic ideologies, that we have a culture that has been forced to choose sides. Science? or Religion? Science in return has had to cut out any type of spiritual outlook into its hypothesis to be considered scientific. This is our cultural phenomenon. People who believe in Evolution can't have God? or People who believe in God can't have evolution? These questions are stuffed in our faces in pop culture everyday. I believe that there is more people out there that are more in the middle of this spectrum, that God( Creator), Created the universe and science is how God did it. If God is all knowing and the Creator of all things, then Science would be in this realm, logically speaking. And as we progress and discover the vast mysteries of the universe we have religious experiences discovering the beautiful universe in front of us. Science and Religion don't get along because the clerics have 1 way in describing the world and science then in returned shut them out. I believe that Science and Religion have to live in complete harmony for one without the other breeds superstition or egocentric nihilism. too the extreme baby...... peace.
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Because religion is based on faith (which by definition is belief absent of reason, "I just know", kind of thought), and science is based in facts (Scientific Method, hypothesis goes through a series of tests to prove it is true/false, results published in textbooks around the globe). Also, religion has been used since the dawn of time to explain things that couldn't be explained by science because scientific knowledge was so limited (example: The ancient Greeks claimed that lightning was a thunderbolt from Zeus). Ergo, with the level of scientific understanding we have reached in 2009, religion is losing what little footing it still has. It scares those who have based their entire lives around theistic belief and we get ridiculous situations like people suggesting we teach creationism in a SCIENCE class.
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I think it's because neither are finished. Until both are in completion, how can they agree?! ALL religious leaders, including Baha'u'llah, have told of another that is yet to come. We are not fully progressed as a whole, merely in a stage of adolescence, so we still need some more of God's life lessons. As for science... much of it is still in theory, therefore it is not fully figured out, because humans have not fully figured things out. Both will grow in tandem, and when adulthood is reached, they will most definitely 'agree'!
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Could it be that we have trained ourselves to percieve that they are separate when in reality one reinforces the other?
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One of the reasons religion and science do not get along may be the similar to why individual religions do not get along with each other - namely that each professes to proclaim the sole 'truth' about fundamental issues such as our origins and reasons for being. And in that profession lies the implicit claim that all other explanations are fallacies. Not exactly the easiest basis on which different schools of thought can 'get along'.
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@Moodles You should look up the concept of the Anthropic principle. Also, I'll do you one better. Let's suppose there is a god. You say, "Now, WHO changed the magnetic field around enough to bring about these movements?" As if to imply the answer is "God". Then I say to that "WHO made God?" Both points of view have what is known as an "initial cause". Religion attempts to recitfy this by saying "God always was"... well, OK then, the scientific answer can just as plausibly be "the magnetic field always was". Why is God the only thing allowed to be "always"? http://zenbullets.com/blog/?p=158" target="_blank">http://zenbullets.com/blog/?p=158
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I think science is explaining how things work. As far back as you go, there has to be a beginning, which for me is God. Take the Big Bang Theory. Who made that bang happen? I read an article about how changing the magnetic or electric field around some metallic pieces gave them lifelike movements: they joined up to make snakelike forms, some of these snakelike forms "preyed" on the otheres, etc. Scientists say this could explain how life began originally from just a few elements. Fine! No problem for me! Now, WHO changed the magnetic field around enough to bring about these movements?
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I think the two must agree or you will have supertition and make believe. Science is believing with sight, religion is believing whole heartedly that it does exist.
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Because people have been taught at an early age that they have to choose sides. They have been taught "either or" and not "both/and". Anyone who is hungry to learn about both religion and science will quickly discover that the two are not at odds but complimentary to one another. It is the ego of Man and our deep rooted fear that we will somehow weaken our stance or give up something if we reach out and support something else. You cannot be Christian and pro-choice... says who? A freed mind will only seek to understand other minds... by doing this they are acknowledging that thinking different doesn't make you wrong or make you the enemy. Fundamentally we are all made of the same matter. So, my answer to the question. Someone didn't learn to share their toys at a young age. anah~
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what is born of the spirit is spirit and what is born of the flesh is flesh... the two are like oil and water.
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