Are science and religion mutually exclusive?”
Some attempt to evade the discrepancies between religion and science by saying that science and religion have nothing to do with each other. Or as a statement from the National Academy of Science reads, “Religion and science are separate and mutually exclusive realms of human thought.”7 The problem with this is that most of us find day to day that science and religion do overlap and that what we believe scientifically does effect what we believe regarding religion. For example, I have found that I cannot hold as scientific fact that which leading scientist George Gaylord Simpson claimed, “man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind.”8 and simultaneously believe that God created human beings in his own image. Science and Christianity But even many who would say that science isn’t fundamentally at odds with religion still maintain that the findings of science have disproved religion, and specifically Christianity. This widely accepted view has cau
