It has always been a delicate territory to tread—the parallels between science and religion. Besides, the whole idea of such a ‘bond,’ albeit not all-encompassing, in terms of precept and also percept, rubs people the wrong way on either side of the ‘barrier.’
Scientists, for obvious reasons, dislike the orientation of their work being guided by dogma—not inquiry, or data. Theologians, likewise, fear that attempts to connect religion to empirical study of the world would knock ‘off-balance’ the essence of faith itself. Result: a truly palpable stalemate in the all-too-familiar ‘battle royal’ to link the two great fields of study, or knowledge, has existed and flourished for ages.
Not that science hasn’t seriously investigated the imponderable, or immaterial, that animates the world. It certainly has, through the reading of experimental evidence, just as much as religion, which is explored for knowledge about the intangibles—through the study of the Scriptures. In other words, the inference is comprehensible, because, in either meadow, the frenzied excitement of enlightenment is essentially impossible to tell apart. It is, quite simply, identical.
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