Science and Religion

Every one of us faces confrontations of scientific facts and religious feelings. Religions, not being based on scientific methods and conventions, always feel inconvenience due to growth of scientific knowledge, and fight it to eliminate it. Religions put a person on infinite paths of hope and which is never fulfilled. But the hope keeps the person engaged in itself without any results.


Religions preach following something of ancient origin with no margins for updating. Since, knowledge never gets saturated and tends to grow, nothing can ever reveal ultimate truths. This includes religions also which suffer from their built-in infinite inertia. Inertia is never a force but an opposition to dynamism. So, religions are opposed to dynamism of thinking which we humans are naturally gifted. Thus, religions are anti-humanism.


Sciences may not be revealing ultimate facts but always tend to moving in that direction so make a dynamic force to influence humanity. This dynamism is opposed by religions through their inertial attribute.


All religions tell us that God is infinite and so can not be known by finite human intellect. Scientific knowledge is also expanding and tends to extend to infinity, but is never assumed to be beyond capacity of, so-called finite, human intellect. This logic makes religions and sciences having mutually opposing notions.


Some religious experts claim religions to be sciences of humanism. Psychology is the greatest of sciences as far as understanding human behavior is concerned. It studies both possibilities - taming and expanding - of human mind. Religions use it for taming purposes to gather more followers. So, religions too make use of science of psychology, and up to this extent, their working is scientific - though a negative use of the science. Sciences are another name for rationality while religions have no rational basis and are based on mere hypotheses, so are not a science.