Can the Beliefs of Religion and Science Coexist Peacefully?

For decades it has been debated on a worldwide scale which is correct: science, or religion? There are people in between, people who are sided strongly with science, and those sided strongly with religion. However, they can coexist peacefully. We are programmed to solve things scientifically, the stories of religion and science do not strictly disagree, and one of the most debated topics of their differences actually works together perfectly.

Science is less of a belief and more of a method with which people discover things about the world around them. As people, we use the scientific method to solve problems whether we know it or not, coming to a problem and thinking of possible ways to overcome it or explain it, doing research, performing experiments and analyzing what we have discovered.  This is ingrained into our brains, which according to religion are created by a god. We have been created to solve problems and explain things scientifically, and if we have been created by gods, they have made us to use science.

            Stories told by religions about how the world came to be, and about why things are the way they are, are often interoperated figuratively. Science is all facts, and interoperated as such, since there is no possible other way to take what scientists have proven to be true. Religious texts do not disagree with science in that aspect, nor does science disagree with religion, because religion can be interoperated in any manner an individual wishes.

All religions have a story of how the world and the universe were created. Science tells the same story, proven through fact, of the Big Bang, how the universe expanded and became larger. However, before the Big Bang, scientists have no idea, and no way to find out, how this dense ball of energy that became the universe got there. This is where the idea of a God comes in. In essence, the theory of creation of the bible -and of others religions as well- and the Big Bang Theory do not disagree, since scientists have no idea how the dense state came to exist.

In conclusion, science and religion can coexist peacefully. We are preprogrammed to solve problems through science from birth through the scientific method, and so, why should the ideas we discover through our god-given gift not exist with religion peacefully? Where science is fact, religion is interoperated differently by all people, and therefore do not even disagree, and the long debated story of creation fits together well with the Big Bang Theory. While they have differences, science and religion can coexist peacefully together.

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