Lecture 5 john haught science and religion

Question 1

Conflict

Answer 1

Some hold that religion is utterly opposed to science or that science invalidates religion

Question 2

Contrast

Answer 2

Others insist that religion and science are so clearly different from each other that conflict between them is logically impossible. Religion and science are both valid, but we should rigorously separate one from the other.

Question 3

Contact

Answer 3

Argues that although religion and science are distinct, science always has implications for religion and vice versa. Science and religion inevitably interact, and so religion and theology must not ignore new developments in science.

Question 4

Confirmation

Answer 4

a fourth way akin to but logically distinct from the third – emphasizes the subtle but significant ways in which religion positively supports the scientific adventure of discovery. It looks for those ways in which religion, without in any way interfering with science, paves the way for some of its ideas, and even gives a special kind of blessing,… or confirmation, to the scientific quest for truth.