Here’s an interesting way of look at the conflict between science and religion: there is no conflict.

Practically speaking, the conflict exists, but maybe only due to a huge misunderstanding of what religion and science are. A fairly recent misunderstanding that even people living in Darwin’s time would not have been confused by. The questions that humans seek to answer via religion are more closely challenged by philosophy than science.

But the fantastic imagery of religious texts is hard to reconcile with what science tells us about reality. What I’m getting at is nicely summed up by Margaret Atwood here:

“Those things that we used to just believe in all the time went to Planet X where they are alive and well…Angels with flaming swords, the burning bush that speaks, you know, all of those really quite science fiction things in the Bible.”

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Authors Find Fertile Mix Of Science And Religion : NPR