HOLISTIC ACCOUNT OF REALITY: Necessity of an Integration of Science and Religion for the Better Future of Humanity

Science and religion were said to be in conflict exhuming the condemnationof Galileo and Chardin by religion and the rejection of God as a hypothesisby La Place. Science, however, became aware of its own limitations byencountering profound questions about the beginning, evolution and future ofthe un...

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Main Author: Chandrankunnel, Mathew (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Dharmaram College 2011
In: Journal of Dharma
Year: 2011, Volume: 36, Issue: 2, Pages: 123-148
Further subjects:B Religion
B Science
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Summary:Science and religion were said to be in conflict exhuming the condemnationof Galileo and Chardin by religion and the rejection of God as a hypothesisby La Place. Science, however, became aware of its own limitations byencountering profound questions about the beginning, evolution and future ofthe universe, beginning, evolution and goal of life, and the inability to controldiseases etc. Religion with its dogmatic arrogance in the past dictated adescription of the universe which the sciences had shown to be wrong. Nowthe extremist view from the part of science as scientism and from the part ofreligion as dogmatism lost their arrogance and became aware of their owninherent limitations and stopped encroaching the other domain makingcategory mistakes.
ISSN:0253-7222
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of Dharma