Can You Believe In Science And Religion At The Same Time?

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I’m no scientist. I don’t think I will ever have the intellectual capacity to be one. But I have always been intrigued with science — from biology all the way to what lies in and beyond the cosmos.

Have you ever felt like there was a glass ceiling between religion and science? If yes, then you are not alone. Around me, many people have said that choosing science is akin to abandoning faith.

For a while, I trod that line.

I guess it can be said that I was afraid of the unknown.

However, the more I learned, despite how little I knew, I became more and more interested in trying to understand the elegant mathematical principles of the universe.

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Science is only an enemy of religion if you make it.

There are many people out there who, upon learning the origins of the universe, concluded that there is no need for a supernatural being or deity because “everything has been explained”.

And then there are those who, with every little knowledge they gain about the cosmos, revel in the ingenuity of the…