Here at Science Shorts, we try to communicate information about science, and offer opportunity for reflection on the nature of the relationship between faith and science. In the last two centuries, traditional religion has been pitted against science. The former is categorized as value or belief or opinion, whereas the latter has been extolled as knowledge - a factual account of the way things are.

The two realms are not necessarily incompatible. They can actually be complementary. Science tends to ask different questions of its subject than does religion. Science asks ‘how’; religion ‘why’. Science describes relationships; religion purpose, goals and meaning. Science provides explanations within the realm of nature. Religion begins with God as creating and working through the realm of nature.

Admittedly, there are areas of tensions. Surprisingly though, as scientists discover more about nature, they are being faced with the implication that there is indeed an Intelligent Designer behind it all.

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