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Hi everyone, I have a question, what is the true relationship between science and religion?
In the past, When scientific theories are not very mature, religion held the power of interpretation of the world. Religions believe that the world was created by God, human was designed by God, and the sun, moon and stars are controlled by God. But now that science has disproved these claims, we all know that the universe was created by the Big Bang; Humans evolved from apes; The sun, moon and stars move because of gravitation.
Therefore, some people can say that religion is the stage product of the immature development of science, and religion and science are opposed. But then again, we can see that there are some famous scientists, such as Einstein, Newton, Frank Yang scientists say that they have a quasi-religious belief, seems to believe that there is a creator in the world. Is that a bit of a contradiction?
What do you think of science and religion?

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Religions believe that the world was created by God, human was designed by God, and the sun, moon and stars are controlled by God. But now that science has disproved these claims,
Not really...
- Science does not disprove that God created the universe, it gives more weight to alternative versions like Big Bang, and even at this point, the BigBang is not a theory of the creation of the universe, but to describe its origin. Funnily, it was modeled by a Catholic priest first and named "Big Bang" by people opposing this model and mocking it because they thought that the Big Bang was an attempt to say that God created the universe.

- Science does not disprove that humans were created by God either. The Evolution of Species by mean of natural selection aims to understand the Evolution of species, not the origin of life. In Fact, Darwin himself did not see a contradiction between his work and religion, or at least God.
In other words, God could perfectly have created human by creating the universe and its rules and, as an omniscient being, predicted that the very disposition of his creation would lead to the Evolution of species in such a way that Homo sapiens would emerge from it.

- I have honestly never heard of religious saying that God controls the Sun and stars, albait it might be possible, but again, you can set a view on religion and God allowing both sciences models and religious beliefs to coexist.

What do you think of science and religion?
To answer your question more directly: Both are complementary. If it's true that, sometimes, religion is just giving an explanation to a question that has not been answered, the nature of the questions asked in religion and science are differents. Very commonly, and not wrongly in my opinion, we say that science answers the question "how" whereas religions answer the question "why?".
For instance: Why life ? => God. How? => Evolution of species.
I would say that both are not exclusive and can even be complementary. In my opinion still, there is no doubt that religion is comforting us when facing things that we do not understand.

As for Einstein and some other scientists, they are not necessarily religious. I think Einstein is more of a theist who believed in the existence of a "Nature" God, close to Spinoza or the Stoics (maybe Diogenes would explain this point better than me, and provide corrections). The belief in God is actually subject to philosophical questions that are not restrained to religions only and Spinoza wrote a very interesting treaty on the matter... which ironically look more like a mathematical treaty than your average philosophy book.

PS: Humans didn't evolve from apes. They are apes.

Edit; On my part, despite I would call myself a Catholic, I feel very close to this last view on God and I feel closer to God when I study biology. Note that this is my very personal case though, for when I was a bachelor, I remember a religious girl felt the opposite way and felt that biology was leading her away from God.

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As strong believer in God, I say: science and religion doesn't exclude each other. It fits together, except situations where one or another scientist/priest tries to negate something with just theory. Or if one believe too much in "what is said/written" in the book, too literally.