Thursday, January 17, 2013

Cardinal difference between religion and science

The cardinal difference between religion and science is that religion believes that ineffable truth has already been revealed, and is literally set forth in its own holy book or books.

Science, on the other hand, rigorously proves its theorems and hypotheses through experimentation without recognizing any finding or discovery as ineffable, believing only in the outcomes induced by its methodology, however temporal such may be.

So, religion adheres to a closed book and science adheres to an open book or, better still, to no book at all!

Religion believes. Science proves. Que sera sera!