Science vs. Religion: The Debate Ends
Abdulla Galadari, Higher Colleges of Technology, Dubai, United Arab
Emirates
Abstract: Science and religion seem to have been at odds with each other throughout history. This has
affected the course of humanity and how society has prejudice towards either science or religion.
Atheist scientists believe in what they know because they believe in reason and think that theists are
unreasonable. The paper brings the problems facing humanity today between science, religion, and
secularism within societies. The followers of each could be fanatics of their own group. The paper
tries to reconcile the debate between atheists and theists, under the microscope of science. This study
makes an analogy of G-d and gravity. It shows that the power of reason used by scientists to deduce
gravity is the exact same reasoning that theists use to believe in G-d. The study goes beyond philosoph-
ical arguments and travels deep into the core principles of the human intellect of scientists and theo-
logians to understand what they believe. It unravels the truth behind the reasoning of why different
humans believe in what appears to be completely different things. The study uses elements of modern
science and its cosmological worldview, such as singularity, spacetime, black holes, and quantum
physics. It shows parallelism of modern scientific theories with various world Scriptures, such as
Hindu and Islamic texts. This study does not argue the truth of any specific religion, but rather argues
the existence of G-d from a broader perspective, using the exact same principles scientists use to for-
mulate their worldview of the universe. This study shows the rationality and irrationality in the argu-
mentative battle between science and religion. It attempts to end the debate and dispute between science
and religion by understanding the truths behind them. It concludes that anyone who believes that the
other is wrong is irrational, and that in reality science and religion complement one another. A theo-
logian must also be a scientist, and a scientist must also be a theologian.
Keywords: Astrophysics, Atheism, Black Holes, Cosmology, Divinity, Existence of God, Gravity,
Physics, Quantum Physics, Religion, Secular, Singularity, Spacetime, Spirituality, Theism, Universe,
Worldview
Introduction
S
CIENCE AND RELIGION seem to have traveled on different paths. Many scientists
in the modern age find themselves at odds with religion and to some extent, at odds
with G-d.
Freud (1927) diagnosed religion as neurosis, illusion, poison, intoxicant, and
childishness to be overcome. Some scientists believe that it is self-evident that religion is a
sort of mind control with psychopathological premises (La Barre 1972). It is described that
no informed rational person would choose to join a religious group, and those who do must
have been coerced, hypnotized, or otherwise without reason.
Many physicists were religious, such as Einstein. However, as physics explains the
physical world, it sometimes finds itself at a roadblock, when it comes to religion, which
explains the spiritual world. Science has inspired atheists to reason with their senses.
The International Journal of Science in Society
Volume 2, Number 2, 2011, http://science-society.com/journal/, ISSN 1836-6236
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