religion and science?

it's true science has influenced modenr day religions and cultures. but it didn't neccesarly diminushed their importance. and why can't science and religion coexist? i mean everybody body is free to belive in whatever they want. if oyu want to belive in god, it's your choice and yours alone.

Hi, You've come up with a very good discussion point and coincidentally one that I've been reading abit about at the moment. I have always been one to question everything and must admit i'm not religious in the sense of believing there is a god. I prefer to rely on science facts rather than what I have been told or learned at school in religious education. I do think in years to come science will prove either way about our religious beliefs, although whether this will change peoples thinking is a different matter!

Through history, our scientific development wasn't enough to explain most things, so humans have used religion as a way to explain what surrounds us, what we cannot understand. But with time, more and more mysteries have been solved, so religion's use in that aspect has been reduced. I am not saying religion is useless nowadays, but there are many things that were only explained by religion that nowadays can have a rational explanation. That's why some religious people, especially the most radical ones of all creeds, are reluctant to accept the benefits of science...they regard it as a certain menace. Like Evolution theories in Christianism, for example. Fortunately, most people are more reasonable than that and don't see such clash between science and religion.