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SCIENTIFIC AND RELIGIOUS WORLDVIEWS: ANTAGONISM, NON‐ANTAGONISTIC INCOMMENSURABILITY AND COMPLEMENTARITY
Author(s) -
HARRISON VICTORIA S.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
the heythrop journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.127
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 1468-2265
pISSN - 0018-1196
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2265.2006.00290.x
Subject(s) - complementarity (molecular biology) , antagonism , construal level theory , epistemology , construals , sociology , philosophy , environmental ethics , social science , biology , biochemistry , genetics , receptor
This article reviews three basic ways in which the relationship between Abrahamic religion and science has been construed: as fundamentally antagonistic; as non‐antagonistically incommensurable; and as complementary. Unfortunately, while each construal seems to offer benefits to the religious believer, none, as the article demonstrates, is without considerable cost.