Science and theology share many similarities that make both disciplines fundamentally synonymous in the way they operate. Both practices operate as a process and a product that function as the basis for the attainment of knowledge specific to their individual goals. Science uses the process of the scientific method as the primary way to understand the material world. The resulting product is the verification of the reliability of knowledge previously questioned. Theology uses the process of critical reflection to understand religious traditions and the systematic expression of faith. This produces the meaning, formulated in words, of the truths produced …show more content…
This same complexity applies to that of the scientific world as well, whose language could be considered that of mathematics, chemistry or physics. Both science and theology have different approaches to understanding and explain the world around us, but both are fundamentally synonymic in their search for knowledge and understanding. It is precisely this common goal that links theology and science, existing as two different sides of the same