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Questions for a Millennium: Religion and Science from the Perspective of a Scientist
Author(s) -
Katz Solomon H.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
zygon®
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1467-9744
pISSN - 0591-2385
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9744.00410
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , sociology , center for the study of religion and society , environmental ethics , epistemology , social science , political science , secular state , philosophy , law , mathematics , geometry , politics
This essay addresses a series of eight questions about what religion can do for science. It explores the secular role of religion in contemporary science and the need for greater synthesis between science and religion. It concludes that, for survival in the twenty‐first century, religion cannot exist without acknowledging and using the enormous information pool of science, and science can no longer shun or ignore religion. Humankind will always need the large, synthetic explanations that religion provides of why we are here and what we ought to do and believe. The world needs to mark this new millennium with a sense of respect, cooperation, and even synthesis between science and religion.