PHILOSOPHIES OF WORLD RELIGIONS RESEARCH PAPER 2022

Running Head: PHILOSOPHIES OF WORLD RELIGIONS RESEARCH PAPER
Philosophies of World Religions Research Paper
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Conflict between religion and Science............................................................................................3
Importance of interfaith dialogue....................................................................................................4
Characteristics of new age spirituality.............................................................................................5
Traditional types of change in religion............................................................................................5
Reference List..................................................................................................................................7

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Introduction
This research studies the nationality of religious faith contrasting it with multiple religious facets
as well as the general scientific truths, which comes in sharp contrast with religious perspectives.
Conflict between religion and Science
There is some obvious conflicts, evident between religion and Science, that has paved the way
for a debate. People pertaining to Christian faith has always averted from reconciling their
scripture with the evolutionary theory. I have always preferred the intelligent design theory
where it is claimed that living things are so Complex that the randomness of natural selections
cannot explain their formation (Stenmark, 2017). This is the way for the implication of an
unsupported suggestion that god is the creator and therefore this theory reveals a religious
underpinning. The next debate can occur in context of evidence and miracles. In spite of
presence or in some instances absence of scientific explanation, religious believers are generally
attracted towards miraculous phenomena and do not seek for rational explanation of occurrences
for various reasons. They look forward at any unique phenomena as an opportunity for
reinforcing their faith by seeking divine intervention. Nevertheless, scientific believers hold that
the religious face are based upon our collection of assumptions regarding the unknown which
will disappear with advancement in human knowledge. Again, there is an evident and obvious
contradiction between the Big Bang and the Genesis theories. The Big Bang Theory supports
that universe was impregnated by singularity before its creation, about 14 billion years ago.
However religious believers suppose that the universe is only 6000 years old Andre interprets the
scripture in ridiculous way to clean that Universe simply popped into existence by the will of
God (Stenmark, 2017). The fundamental difference between science and religion is in absolutism
versus scepticism. Buy fundamental standards, science always believes in incompatibility and