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Should science educators deal with the science/religion issue? [PDF]

open access: yesStudies in Science Education, 2008
I begin by examining the natures of science and religion before looking at the ways in which they relate to one another. I then look at a number of case studies that centre on the relationships between science and religion, including attempts to find ...
Michael J Reiss
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Cryonics: Science or Religion

Journal of Religion and Health, 2021
Cryonics involves the low-temperature freezing of human corpses in the hope that they will one day be reanimated. Its advocates see it as a medical treatment but as in any medical procedure, this presupposes some scientific evidence. This paper examines the scientific basis of this technology and argues that cryonics is based upon assertions which have
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The Religion of Science

International Journal of Pest Management: Part B, 1967
Our Association has severely practical aims. But science itself, in many of the domains where its achievements have been most conspicuous, has been inspired likewise by wholly practical objectives. Joseph Priestley, who foresaw the prospects for science more clearly than most, wrote in 1768 in his Essay upon the Principles of Government: ‘Nature ...
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Religion and Science: The Basics

2013
Religion and science are arguably the two most powerful social forces in the world today. But where religion and science were once held to be compatible, many people now perceive them to be in conflict. This unique book provides the best available introduction to the burning debates in this controversial field.
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The Territories of Science and Religion

2015
The conflict between science and religion seems indelible, even eternal. Surely two such divergent views of the universe have always been in fierce opposition? Actually, that's not the case, says Peter Harrison: our very concepts of science and religion are relatively recent, emerging only in the past three hundred years, and it is those very ...
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Science and Religion/Religion and Science

2022
Lowell Gustafson   +2 more
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Religion and Science Before Religion and Science

2022
The common distinction between “religion” and “science” that has emerged in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is of very limited use if we apply it to earlier historical configurations.To problematize what we have learned about religion and science, it is helpful to look at the territory “between” those terms and to “map” that territory of human ...
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Science and Religion in the New Religions

2009
Abstract This article demonstrates how religion is propagated through a scientistic strategy or discourse, and how religion, not science, is in control. Scientistic religious groups, however, are not “paradoxical”—what they have accomplished is simply an expanded usage of a traditional religious strategy.
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