The Intersection of Science and Religion | StarTalk

I’m often asked its science and religion
compatible are they forever in conflict
the answer is simple it’s simple if your
religious views contains testable claims
about the natural world be ready for
them to be shown to be false are you
ready for that that that happens often
okay so if you’re not ready for that
then you will have a life of conflict
evermore you and your descendants and
their descendants and the like the
enlightened religious people view
science as a means of decoding nature
nature that they feel in their heart of
hearts is created by God perhaps but
they view science as a means of learning
about nature rather than the Bible as a
means of defining nature if you look at
the world that way you will never have a
conflict with science science is our
guiding light for how the universe works
so all this conflict that everyone talks
about that unfolds if you are
fundamentalist religion and you are
certain that every word in the Bible is
the literal truth of an unerring creator
of the universe yeah you’re going to
spend your life fighting everything and
fortunately that’s the minority of all
religious people so it doesn’t hold
society society’s attempts to advance
civilization invoking the methods and
tools and discoveries of science and
technology it doesn’t hold them back too
badly but understand the consequences if
you want to bring religious philosophy
into the science classroom you will
stall the technological progress of your
society thereby rendering rendering the
future of your society incapable of
competing economically this the 21st
century where innovations in science and
technology are the engines
you