Either science or religion or both
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Science and religion are the bases of our claims for knowing. This suggests that anything that has fallen into our minds comes from these sources. :hen we reason or when someone says µuse your common sense¶, it is meant that you utilise the data in your mind whose source is either science or religion or both.
,n philosophy it is said there are two views or beliefs about how life works and these have been said to be opposing each other. These originated with the ancient Greeks. 2ne is from Democritus who believed in µwhat you see is what you get¶. This is the belief in materialism, that is, everything that e[ists is physical, and the smallest building block in the universe is the atom. The other view came later from Socrates who believed that everything is dual, that is, there¶s a spiritual world and a physical world in everything. This means the spiritual world which is perfect is prior and independent to the material world a corrupt shadow of the spiritual world .
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Science follows the view of Democritus on the material world of observable things. Science deals with empiricism or empirical data or sense e[perience. The world of the senses is what you hear, touch, smell and see. ,n the main, the proponents of science lived around the s and s and are 5ene Descartes, )rancis Bacon and ,saac 1ewton. Thus it is believed that science is about years old.
These two views are evident in medical science. Some doctors see only the physical body of the patient and his sickness is viewed to originate in some disease in the physical body and nothing else. 2n the other hand, some practitioners are of the Socrates view, that the patient has both the spiritual and the physical being. These are of the view that man is dual and often that correcting something of man¶s spiritual part would automatically heal the physical; correcting something about the man¶s mind you correct his physical ailment. This is marriage of both the spiritual and the physical.
The biblical Thomas represented the scientific view to life, the seeing proving first before believing. +e wanted empirical data – the sense e[perience, seeing first and then believe after, instead of what his 0aster had taught him – belief first and look for
the evidence later religion . Some of the Jews of the time thought they were religious when in actuality they were scientific.
2ur courts of law are scientific in their approach too. ,t has been said the marriage between religion and science is better than either of the two alone. Albert Eistein said: “Science without religion is lame. 5eligion without science is blind.´ :e need both for a fuller e[planation or understanding of the world we live in. 0 1NDPEXOHEVIDENCE