SCIENCE AND RELIGION

            Science and religion are like two sides of a coin.  Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.  Religion is an organised collection of beliefs, cultural systems and universal views that relate humanity to the supernatural and to the spirituality.

It can be seen that science and religion are in opposite camps.  Science deals with the material world that we know; religion is concerned with a divine order that we imagine and faith with devoutly purpose. Science believes in things that can be proved; religion deals with spiritual ideas that cannot be proved. Science depends on reason; religion on faith.  The goal of science is achievement; that of religion is realization. The truths of science can be proved to all; the truths of religion have to be taken on trust.

These two words “Science and Religion” can be considered as antithetical. But it is not so. As the two sides of a coin have a common relation that they are the sides of a coin, science and religion have a common relation that they are for the welfare of humans. The difference between the both is in the way they describe their theories.  Science proves that everything in this universe is created by energy. Energy can neither be created nor be destroyed. The same thing is proved in every religion. Everything in this universe is created by God(a form of energy), wherein God can neither be created or destroyed.

            Every religion preaches science. We can quote numerous examples from almost all religions.

For example:

(i) In Hinduism, people are asked to go around the temple premises (pradharshanam).  They are asked to do so because, scientifically it has been proved that walking is the best exercise. As they go around the temple, they will get fresh air and is equivalent to a walk along beach side(as people do these days)

(ii) The homams usually conducted during any holy occasions can also be proved to be of a scientific reason. The holy smoke coming out from the homams are proved to be good medicines for many diseases.

(iii) In the Holy Quran,  it has been emphasized about the importance of bees.  Later in the 20^th century we found out that we need Bees to pollenate our flowers and plants in order for the world to work, without the Bees the natural world would get struck.

The purpose of religion is to prove why things happen: why is there something rather than nothing. Whereas the purpose of science is to ask how things came about. Therefore it is impossible for religion and science to ever question one another, unless science or religion attempt to answer beyond their fundamental question..  therefore, science  and religion exists hand in hand and are inseparable.

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

                                                                                                - (Albert Einstein) "