Can religion and science peacefully coexist?
There has been much written recently about how religion and science are not truly at war, how religion and science answer different questions, and how they are compatible in the minds of many. But that’s just not true. Of course there is a strong reason to wish it were so. If we could have religion and science comfortably living together in our brains, then maybe we could avoid much conflict, and the important social role that religion plays could continue without undermining the science that drives our technology, our medicine, our lives. But religion resists science, and has done so at every historical turn, because science challenges religion on a fundamental, inescapable level. Sure, we can craft a story about how God set up this grand string of dominoes, and evolution is just the elaborate fall from God’s initial hand. God doesn’t intervene because he has set up laws for the good of all his creatures that don’t require his intervention. And every now and then, when the fate of the
