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Article: Why do people believe or disbelieve?(The Science of Religion)
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- Free Inquiry
- Article date:
- June 22, 1999
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LETTING SCIENCE ANSWER THE QUESTION
What is the relationship between science and religion? The advocates of theistic religion often maintain that religion expresses a mode of truth that is independent of scientific knowledge, and that religious experience presents a form of intuition or knowing that reason cannot comprehend. They claim that there is no conflict between these two domains and that they complement each other.
Can science explain religious behavior in naturalistic terms? Can there be a science of religion? Scientists attempt to account for various forms of human behavior: economic, political, biological, psychological. If we can talk about ...