Disputes between science and religion

Louw Feenstra, Johannes Borgstein

Resumen


This essay is an attempt to get at the core of the problematic relation between science and religion. Historical overviews describe the variety of ways science and religion handled their disputes in the past. Here it is argued that those disputes arose—and still arise—as a result of the differences between the basic premises and beliefs of both parties prior to the disputes.

It is felt that the origin of (any) religious belief is mysticism. Mystics however generally have no tendencies to quarrel. They tend to see similarities rather than points of difference. It is ‘institutional’ religion that is arguably the causal malefactor by losing its connection with its authentic origin and stressing other points for attention.

 

Key words: Science, history, religion, mysticism, meditation, brain.


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