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What is the history of science in religion?

From a purely social perspective, many people seem to think that science and religion are against each other. But I looked at the Catholic religion (currently one of the longer stories in Christianity and organized religion, with its center at the Vatican), and found some interesting information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XVI # Your Christianity_as_the_Religion_according_to_Reason http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/biography/documents/hf_ben-xvi_bio_20050419_short-biography_en.html intense scientific activity led him to important positions of Vatican Observatory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_Observatory "This is our way of finding God" http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/vatican_observe_000716.html

The origin of science – the development and use of a research system based on experimentation – was based on religious conviction. The XI century Arab scholar Ibn al-Haytham was a devout Muslim. He believed that human beings are imperfect and only God is perfect. To discover the truth about nature, reasoned, was to eliminate human opinion and error and allow the universe to speak for itself. "The seeker of truth is not one who studies the writings of old and, following his natural disposition, puts his trust in them, "he wrote," but he suspects his faith in them and what brings them, which is subject to discussion and demonstration. "Ibn al-Haytham physics experiments to test hypotheses, development of the research system known as the scientific method. Ibn al-Haytham remains a devout Muslim all his life. "It became my belief that access to the effulgence and closeness God, no better than the search for truth and knowledge, "he wrote. One verse in the Koran," Those who remember Allah … reflect on the creation of the heavens and the earth. "The Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, said," seeking knowledge is a duty for all Muslims. "The religion is not only compatible with science, its principles provided the impetus for systematic experimentation to discover the truth.

Galileo: For Copernicanism and for the Church, Third Edition (Revised and Extended) (ND From Vatican Observatory Found) $31.92 After the publication of the second English edition of this book, the opening of the archives of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith (formerly the Congregation of the Holy Office), which occurred in 1998, brought to light important new documents on aspects of the trial of Galileo and on steps taken by the Church in 1757. New historical research, especially that of Francesco Ber…

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