Science Versus Religion

"Ever since the dawn of civilisation there have been much debate on worth and dignity of science and religion;the intellectuals ,philosophers,thinkers are divided even today on the conflicting belief in the matter of supermacy of one over the other".

With the rapid progress made by science and technology in the recent past,the conflict between the two widen further.Science on the one hand ,concludes the theories on the basis of experiments and analytical logics,while religious theories are based on experience,meditation and blind faith.Science deals with the things objectively while religion is a subjective matter.In the present age of rapid growth in scientific advancements in all walks of life,the further history would depend on the way of living of the new generation to reconcile the conflict between science and reigion.

religion is mainly a phenomenon of faith,a purely subjective topic while science is based totally on reasoning and analytically proving the concepts based on laboratory or mechanical experiments.Science always speaks the truth in crude language and in absolute terms,while religion speaks in poetic and touching sentiment.Science has the credit of providing mental peace and solace in the world ,where everyone is mortal.Through science one can amass uncountable wealth ,unimaginable luxuries ,all material and physical things,that needs to make him more efficient ,more quick ,more important in the eyes of others,but the mental solace ,the self respect ,the internal peace,he can secure only through the religion .Science gives luxuries and materialistic living to a man,while religion gives him peace of mind.

Bernard Shaw once said ,"life will lose its charm,when faith is replaced by cold scientific reason."

Many great scientists,scholars,political leaders,writers have given credit of their achievement to the Almighty,a supernatural being,it shows that religion is not an unnimportant concept to throw away.There is no  weightage for moral and ethical values in the materialistcs world created by scientfic inventions and discoveries ,but without moral and ethical values ,the world becomes a self -destructive entity.By pushing a button of nuclear warhead the whole world or the whole civilisation may face destruction ;science is not going to tell you the consequence of the act of pushing a button but it is the moral and ethical values imbibed in aman because of his faith in a religion,which prevent him to push such a button as it can destroy the beautiful creature of living being created by the will of Almighty.

The approach of science towards life is crude,monotonous,lifeless,devoid of feelings of love,emotions,while on the other hand the religion approaches the life with animation,with feelings of faith,love towards all human beings,faith in self and faith in the Omnipotent,Omnipresent a superbeing .According to religion the existence of man is by the will of God ,all the bad or good happens only by the will of God,while science rejects all these concepts are and believes that the birth of a child is the result of sexual relation between the man and woman.Science has been able to cure several incurable disease ,but unable to conquer the inevitable death.Science cant tell us the reason and cause of rebirth of soul.Science cant solve many mysteries of the world Religion gives us answers of the above questions,but that are unable to be proved ,as in religion ,the things are based on faith and belief and cant be justfied and proved in a scientific way.

Swami Vivekanand in his speech at the parliament of religions held at chicago in 1893 said ,Science is nothing but the finding of unity.