RELIGION AND SCIENCE - COMPLEMENTARY, NOT CONTRADICTORY

Spirituality and science are two different pursuits of mankind. Each has contributed, in its own way, towards the enrichment of human life and culture. The doors should be kept open between them for mutual cooperation and exchange.

Recent past was an era of confusion and there have been instances in which a friend has been mistaken as a foe and a foe as a friend. The debate that spirituality and science are mutually contradictory and exclusive is also of a similar nature. In religious circles it was presumed that science opposes religion. It works against faith, and expresses disbelief in life beyond. It takes man to be a machine and so thinks that to make this machine run efficiently it is adequate to fulfill only its physical needs. It considers perceivable nature to be all that there is and rejects the existence of immortal soul and concepts like selflessness. Therefore, while the achievements of science should be utilized its hypotheses need to be rejected which otherwise will render human life devoid of meaning and purpose.