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I have had the opportunity to know many religious people in my life, and the ones I admired the most all shared this feeling of wonder. I have also known several scientists, and those I admired the most were also filled with wonder. As both were looking at this Universe and were inspired to understand more, to discover its "meaning," I could see they shared a very similar response to what they were looking at. The big difference between the two lies in how they go about understanding; the religious do it subjectively, and the scientist does it objectively. What is True can be seen both ways, and they need not be in opposition to each other. The truly religious always seek a deeper understanding, and so do the best scientists. For humanity to rise above war, starvation, disease, and the other serious problems we face, we will need the best that each one of us can contribute to do so. Is it not time to stop fighting over who's way is better and work together to put out the fires?

Yes they can.

Science (especially physics) is beginning to bridge the gap from physics to metaphysics.

1. The works of Dr's William Tiller, Masaru Emoto, Bruce Lipton, Dean Radin, and many others are beginning to glimpse that consciousness affects matter (ie mind over matter).

2, About 5 years ago; scientists discovered that human beings have a second brain at the solar plexus. I know this will sound very foreign to many; but it is truth. There are a mass of neurons (brain cells) found at the solar plexus that received oxygen and nutrition via the celiac artery. Prooving what the mystics have been teaching thousands of years; that the Nefesh (Jewish mystics), Ami (Mongolian mystics), Nagi (Lakota mystics), Unihipili (Hawai'ian mystics) is located in the solar plexus instead of the brain. In Freudian and modern psychology this animalistic mind would be called the id or the subconscious mind.

Yes, surely. Science is a manifestation of God's existence.

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Sort of, but too many people influenced by religion have actually denied the truth of scientific discovery for it to be reasonable to assume that they can work together. Science and religion are too VERY different things.

As scientific concepts are an integral part of the world (that many people believe a god created), it seems a bit impossible for most religions to discount or ignore science, doesn't it?

Science, on the other hand, can do without religion.

Einstein felt so. Einstein is probably the best known and most highly revered scientist of the twentieth century, and is associated with major revolutions in our thinking about time, gravity, and the conversion of matter to energy (E=mc2). Although never coming to belief in a personal God, he recognized the impossibility of a non-created universe. The Encyclopedia Britannica says of him: "Firmly denying atheism, Einstein expressed a belief in "Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the harmony of what exists." This actually motivated his interest in science, as he once remarked to a young physicist: "I want to know how God created this world, I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts, the rest are details." Einstein's famous epithet on the "uncertainty principle" was "God does not play dice" - and to him this was a real statement about a God in whom he believed. A famous saying of his was "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

So did Max Planck. Max Planck (1858-1947)

Planck made many contributions to physics, but is best known for quantum theory, which revolutionized our understanding of the atomic and sub-atomic worlds. In his 1937 lecture "Religion and Naturwissenschaft," Planck expressed the view that God is everywhere present, and held that "the holiness of the unintelligible Godhead is conveyed by the holiness of symbols." Atheists, he thought, attach too much importance to what are merely symbols. Planck was a churchwarden from 1920 until his death, and believed in an almighty, all-knowing, beneficent God (though not necessarily a personal one). Both science and religion wage a "tireless battle against skepticism and dogmatism, against unbelief and superstition" with the goal "toward God!"

I could go on and on.

Absolutely

To what end? To prove that prayer works? It doesn't. To prove that forgiveness has health benefits? It does. Where there are common interests, science is a curious puppy that will dig until its curiosity is satisfied. Religion? An old man whose curiosity has died - maybe he has some good advice but he's disappointed nobody asks him any more.

What most people fail to see is that much of modern science confirms what the Bible teaches. In many cases science and religion do work together, but you need to know the truth about what's in the Bible to see this.