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Religion and Science
Tarek Sharaf
Assignment #2(2)
10/4/2011
Religions and Sciences

“Religion is science and science is religion” this is my rule and belief in this life. However, not all religions agree with science all the time. In my point of view, if a religion does not agree with science at all then it can’t be a true religion, because if GOD created everything and everything have its own science, therefor, the true religion from a true GOD should agree with the science that was created by GOD.

I was born a Christian, but I converted to Islam years ago with my family. What made me actually think about embracing Islam is Science itself. For example, when I read the Muslim’s book the holy Quran, I found so many scientific information that actually was discovered only decades ago with all that strong technologies of nowadays. For example, the holy Quran told the Muslims about the planets and how they rotate around the sun from almost around 1400 years ago! Also, so many other scientific matters that agree with Islam, which in my point of view made me think Islam is the right religion.

Even though Science can’t prove religion, but there is still that strong relationship between them. However, the nature, the environment, and all the creatures actually belong to science and religion at the same time. For example, if we want to study humans we use different scientific methods, however, we will find ourselves in need to use religious understandings which can help us very much to study the humans much deeper, like studying how they were created and the concept of the soul and the fetus…etc.

Finally, religion and science are strongly correlated and each depends on the other to create a full understanding of matters. However, religions don’t have to fully agree with science in everything, because sometimes science can be wrong and religion is right, and sometimes the opposite. For example, when Charles Darwin said humans are actually evolved from monkeys, religions

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