Science and religion—each pursues large truths and offers total solutions. Science works; that’s for sure. Religion? Not so sure. What are the thought processes, the ways of thinking, of science and religion? How do the ‘scientific method’ and the ‘religious method’ compare and contrast? Moreover, how to develop trust in the separate truths of science and religion?
Christopher Isham is a theoretical physicist at Imperial College London where he is a Distinguished Research Fellow of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, in the Department of Physics.
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