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Science and Religion Walk Into a Bar

A Pastor and a Philosopher Walk into a Bar

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The Importance of Faith in Science

There are scientists who in the act of that project, giving their life to it, became believers in a higher power or God. The conflict between science and religion is what has been called non overlapping magisteria by Stephen J Gould. They're doing different things. Their styles of inquiry, their methods of inquiry aren't fundamentally different when you try to use the one to reach other conclusions about the other. It's a pretty hard kind of line for people to keep from crossing over into each others' worlds.

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