http://www.scienceandreligiontoday.com/2010/02/08/kim-stanley-robinson-equates-science-and-religion/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:22:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.scienceandreligiontoday.com/2010/02/08/kim-stanley-robinson-equates-science-and-religion/comment-page-1/#comment-2914 V. V. Raman Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:18:51 +0000 http://www.scienceandreligiontoday.com/?p=8967#comment-2914 In the never-ending battle between science and religion, there are two extremist positions: One views religion as total nonsense which has no place in a science-informed society, and the other engages in sophistry to show that science and religion are the same. Some of this latter kind have argued that religion too is a science; others, as in this instance, like to say that science itself is another religion. Calling religion a science may make some religious people happy, but I am not sure how many practicing scientists will be comfortable when their discipline is described as another religion. They may take some consolation from the fact that this is done by one who is good at writing fiction. V. V. Raman February 8, 2010 Author of "Truth and Tension in Science and Religion" In the never-ending battle between science and religion, there are two extremist positions: One views religion as total nonsense which has no place in a science-informed society, and the other engages in sophistry to show that science and religion are the same.
Some of this latter kind have argued that religion too is a science; others, as in this instance, like to say that science itself is another religion.
Calling religion a science may make some religious people happy, but I am not sure how many practicing scientists will be comfortable when their discipline is described as another religion.
They may take some consolation from the fact that this is done by one who is good at writing fiction.
V. V. Raman
February 8, 2010
Author of “Truth and Tension in Science and Religion”

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