Science and Religion, Methodologies
A primary concern of contemporary scholarship on science and religion is the question of precisely how the two areas should be related. Historically, there has been a wide range of such theories. While the situation is in many ways similar today, the growth of a specific field of religion and science has provided some increased sophistication. Modern methodologies of science and religion generally seek to do two things. First, any methodology of science and religion almost inevitably has to give an account of the nature of both science and religion. That is, it must give an account of the realities that science and religion each describe, as well as how knowledge in each field is acquired. Second, any methodology must then account for how the truths in the respective fields can be related to one another. Most current methodologies of science and religion attempt both these tasks to varying degrees. In much of the current literature on...
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