Science and Religion

Same thinkers of the present-day-world have realized that there is no essential inconsistency or conflict between the spirit of religion and that of science. Both science and religion are moving towards the same objective, namely, to find out the ultimate truth; only they are operating in two different domains and following two different paths. Man seeks the truth of the outer world of senses through science, and that of the inner world of consciousness through religion. 

Science meets the physical demands of man; religion meets the spiritual craving of the human soul. Science deals with the material and the known; religion deals with the spiritual and the unknown. Science is vitally connected with the head; religion is essentially linked to the heart and the soul. Religion is the pursuit of all that is high and holy; science is the pursuit of all that is mighty, material, purposeful and useful. Stress of science is on this world; and that of religion is on other worldliness.  So their scopes are different, but still they react upon each other, and place each other on a sounder and saner footing.

Religion and science Part 2

For a pretty long time the dogmatic religious organisations held society tight within a steel frame of work of rites and rituals. No body could go against the tenets of religion except on peril of excommunication and even tormenting death. For centuries together science religion were at loggerheads with each other. They early pioneers of scientific research who had the guts to observe things as they are and to speak them out on the very face religion were burnt at the stake. To religion they were heretics, to science they were noble martyrs. Galileo was imprisoned by the Italians at the command of churchmen because he held that the Earth and other planets revolved round the sun. 

Bruno and Copernicus had to pay dearly for exploding their scientific theory that the sun is stationary and the earth moves round the sun. The German scientist Robert Mayor was thrown into a lunatic asylum for his discovery of the 'insane theory' of the conservation of Energy. In more recent times, Darwin had to face a storm of anger and contempt from the church for his theory of evolution-tracing the origin of man to monkey and not God' but never gave in.