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Is science better at answering ?s of life than religion? philosophy better than science? what's the hierarchy?

  • If so, then why is religion still so prominent. Why is there even a debate over evolution vs. creationism? Does faith supercede fact? Is fact simply a repeatable faith? And why why why aren't those who study epistemology/phenomenology/existialism/m… why aren't they giving us the right answers to the questions that religion and science try but can't answer (at least to the point of no more debate). I mean, isn't that what an answer is? questioned solved, end of story, move on, nothing to see here? then why are we still debating between science fact and religion faith? and why aren't the philosophers in the world demanding the right answers be taught, digested, and dispersed amongst the population so all this violence of right and wrong can go away?

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    I think that these things answer different questions. Science can't answer "what's the meaning of life?" Faith can't answer the "what causes diabetes?" So, rather than one simply superceeding the other, I think that they are complementary in many ways. I am not sure that modern philosophers are involved in the religion vs. science debate all that much. I don't think that they consider it an academic question. Why is science and religion in conflict right now? Partly because in the past few decades religion has lost some of its traditional influence in the USA. The pendulum has "swung" back in terms of conservativism, and so there is some resurgence in efforts to return influence to the more traditional sources--the family and the church. I also think that it is a false dichotomy. You can believe in science and religion both. I think that the very religious have entered into this "fight" in a way that won't help their cause in the end. Faith is just that--the belief in something without proof. Science is the opposite--the belief that proof is the defining characteristic. I can't figure out why religious folks would even want to put science and religion on the same footing. Intelligent Design? Creationism Science? Pshaw. Science can't prove (or disprove) religion.

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Quite a long question. To make the answer short and precise. No answer can be satisfactory to all of the people all the time. Religion or Science or Religion and Science can give the answers to most, if not all questions for some people all of the time. Likewise , the same can be said of most people for a period of time But it is a total impossibility that Religion and science or Religion or science can give the answers satisfactory to all of the people all of the time. Hope you got that. No need to be frustrated. This is life supreme

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No, science is not better at answering ?s of life than religion but science make you understand religion better. Philosophy and science are two field of knowledge, first deal with universal law while second deals with matter by experiment and may change by time as search advance. Problem is not with science,philosophy or religion. The problem is we does not wish or like to follow the truth for our worldly desire and have no patient.

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Science openly admits that it has no answers nor should it about many questions we ponder. Like life after death and origin of the universe. A lot of why? questions are like this to. Science answers how not why.

twertyto

what do you mean by "better?" Science is the study of something...like words that end in ology...religeon is science for some...theology right? religeon is about beliefs...I belive in science...science is my religeon! I am not even sure I exist, remind me to avoid graduate level philosophy courses from now on...

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I'll start with the hierarchy part: I don't think there is one. Philosophy and science are designed to answer two very different kinds of questions. Science cannot in any way tell us what kinds of morals, laws or ethics we should adopt. Likewise, Philosophy is very poorly equpped to do the tasks given to science. Studying epistemology is not going to reveal any information about the orbits of planets, and the study of ethics will fail to shed any light on thermodynamics. Now, there are areas where there might be an overlap between science and philosophy, but the moment the question which might belong to both fields is tested experimentally or examined quantitatively, the question and answer become the sole province of science. As for the conundrums you've presented, I doubt very much that a good criterion for truth is: "people have stopped debating it". People are often times ill equipped to understand technical explanations of things, they often do not take the time to fix that, and then, wanting for answers, they are content to make them up. That's where religion enters into all of this.

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