Category: Science and religion

While Ethics cannot be derived from Science, Science cannot be practiced without Ethics. For the scientific method to produce new knowledge the scientist must be truthful in reporting the results of experiments, prepared to forego material rewards rather than to publish work they know to be unsound and prepared to put the advancement of human…

Religious thought and contemplation can draw inspiration and ideas from the scientific world But those inspirations and ideas Can never themselves be scientific. Note that this principle is equally true of religious thought which styles itself As humanistic, agnostic or atheistic.

From the classical to the medieval world knowledge about the nature of the world was regarded as a single domain. Post “the enlightenment” knowledge about the world became divided into the “scientific” and the “other stuff”. Scientific knowledge deals with an independent scientific reality which can be known via the methods of science. The other…