RELIGION AND SCIENCE WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY AND SCIENCE

Abstract

One of the famous scientists Albert Einstein said, “Science without Religion is lame and Religion without Science is blind.” This statement of Albert Einstein emphasizes that both must enrich and empower each other for the betterment of humanity. The relationship between religion and science is complicated and complex at one level but on the other, it supports each other to empower the life of human beings on the earth. Both religion and science is in integration too. Because both religion and science supports each other in order to prove of its own claims. The religious claims are tested and proved scientifically in the same way religion constructs conceptual frame work where science exists. For Ian Barbour, religion and science is integration at this level. The truth here, perhaps, is that a belief isn’t religious just in itself. The property of being religious isn’t intrinsic to a belief; it is rather one a belief acquires when it functions in a certain way in the life of a given person or community. To be a religious belief, the belief in question would have to be appropriately connected with characteristically religious and ethical attitudes on the part of the believer, such attitudes as love, grace, mercy, compassion, forgiveness, justice, equality, accountability, faithfulness, truthfulness etc.