Science and Religion
J. Wright
Informal Logic
November 5, 2012

Science and Religion The million dollar question for decades has been “Does God really exists?” This is a topic that has been debated over for centuries. How can one really know if God does exist? What is the proof, if there is any? Could the possibility between science and religion give us that proof? These are all question that have been asked over and over, again and again, and time after time. Definitely, no greater issue is argued for, or argued against than the probability of the existence or non-existence of a supreme being. So where does science and religion fit into this puzzle? Did the universe just evolve over time, as science says it has? Or, did a powerful being just drop everything into motion, as religion states? Since traveling the theistic road of fideism and the non-theistic paths of naturalism and positivism (Alexander, 2008), individuals just keep repeating “does science and religion have conflicting contradictions towards our universe?” Science and religion have two very distinctive ways when approaching knowledge and natural occurring events. Science is more in relation to mathematics, and religion follows life experiences. As for understanding knowledge and natural occurring events, science leans more towards the descriptive side and religion would be more prescriptive (John, 2008). Science concentrates on how the world ought to be, like the way religion precedes it to be. The relationship between science and religion has traditionally been understood that if any conflict does exist it is based on epistemology. Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that studies the nature of knowledge, in particular its foundations, scope, and validity (Mosser, 2011). The relationship between religion and science and the conflict between the two is