Science vs. Religion

[Angrboda]

I have a less rosy and positivistic view of science. However, to me, the conflict is not between science and faith, or religion, but between sets of epistemologies and epistemological assumptions. There is some inconsistency and incoherence of both, that in science and that in religion, yet the epistemologies represented in science have a much lower profile — the epistemologies and epistemological assumptions of religion and faith are tearing her apart without and in the absence of any real input from science. Inconsistencies such as that between an epistemic based on texts and authorities and the obvious relativism of a cafeteria approach to belief and ethics is but one example. And more than the specific truths of science, the superior performance of its philosophy and epistemology to deliver the goods is giving believers and belief a well deserved inferiority complex.

This is not so much the doing of science as the undoing of religion by itself, and I don't know how you unring that bell.