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Which of the following models of the relationship between science and religion is closest to your personal view of the matter?
The Conflicting-Wolds Model: The 'warfare' approach. Science and religion are mutually exclusive ways of knowing, one being right and the other wrong. In this view, (1) the findings of modern science are always a potential threat to faith and thus they must be carefully vetted against religious truths before acceptable or (2) the tenets of religion are always a potential threat to science and thus they must be viewed with skepticism and cynicism.
The Same-World Model: Science and religion are two ways of examining the same reality, and that as science progresses to a deeper understanding of the natural world, it will reveal that many ancient religious tenets are true. Embraced by many mainstream theologians and some believing scientists who prefer a more flexible cognitive approach to science and religion, allowing them to read scriptural passages metaphorically.
The Separate-Worlds Model: Science and religion are neither in conflict or agreement with each other; represents non-overlapping magisteria; science for natural world, religion for other the potentially existing supernatural worlds.
http://www.stephenjaygould.org/library/gould_noma.html
http://archaeology.about.com/od/quotations/qt/quote202.htm
(Definitions from Shermer, Michael Why Darwin Matters 2006)
The Conflicting-Wolds Model: The 'warfare' approach. Science and religion are mutually exclusive ways of knowing, one being right and the other wrong. In this view, (1) the findings of modern science are always a potential threat to faith and thus they must be carefully vetted against religious truths before acceptable or (2) the tenets of religion are always a potential threat to science and thus they must be viewed with skepticism and cynicism.
The Same-World Model: Science and religion are two ways of examining the same reality, and that as science progresses to a deeper understanding of the natural world, it will reveal that many ancient religious tenets are true. Embraced by many mainstream theologians and some believing scientists who prefer a more flexible cognitive approach to science and religion, allowing them to read scriptural passages metaphorically.
The Separate-Worlds Model: Science and religion are neither in conflict or agreement with each other; represents non-overlapping magisteria; science for natural world, religion for other the potentially existing supernatural worlds.
http://www.stephenjaygould.org/library/gould_noma.html
http://archaeology.about.com/od/quotations/qt/quote202.htm
(Definitions from Shermer, Michael Why Darwin Matters 2006)