Relationship between science and theology

Polkinghorne notes the view that "science and theology really are . . . partners in the great human quest to understand reality" (Polkinghorne 20) and cites Ian Barbour as to a classification of interactions between the two. Conflict is cited first and seen to derive from a clash of scientism (or "the assertion that the only meaningful questions to ask or possible to answer are scientific questions" [Polkinghorne 20]) and biblical literalism. Independence would treat the two as completely separate. Dialogue sees the two as speaking to one another about issues where their interests overlap. Integration is an ambitious aim that "encourages the unification of science and theology into a single discourse" (Polkinghorne 21). Consonance is another possibili

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anized religion, especially the story of Christ: The story, so far as relates to the supernatural part, has every mark of fraud and imposition stamped upon the face of it (Paine 67). It was in the Enlightenment when the first Encyclopedia was produced by Diderot. The ideas of the Enlightenment would lead to the American Revolution and the creation of the Constitution and to the French Revolution and the overthrow of the ancien rTgime. The emphasis on learning in the Enlightenment would contribute to the development of various systems of learning and to the founding of universities and colleges. In the era of enlightenment, a number of major developments in the intellectual life of the time took place that would profoundly affect human thought and the development of reason through education thereafter. The development of new political ideas would extend intellectual and political freedom beyond what had existed before. This would lead to new conceptions of human equality and would thus also affect the education offered, extending general education to the populace at large rather than confining it to the upper classes. Essentially, human thought was put more and more to the test of addressing issues in this world rather than t
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