RLG210Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Don Juan Matus, The Scientists, Big Bang
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Religion is based on an creates an epistemological dualism or split: Key concepts and key ideas exam material. We treat the phenomeomon of relligion is the way wwe treat family life, war etc. We pointed out there was unique aspects of religion. Study of religion differs accrding o other studies because of the transcendant, You can think about it in the way the world works. Science is about crackign into real processes of nature. With relligion we run ino this challenge. In rellgions, they tend to articulate a split level reality. A transdent reality supernatural above the reality. Then the science is a problem because it is only a wordly issue that"s in this world. They have no access to what"s outside of this world. They know the relgiious language has certaiin peculiars. It cannot be viewed as being funadementally factual or emprical. Relgious people say things abou their religion for what they think is true.
