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same way as religion is bommitment of the bel ble rather than what we about what is physically possi nevers to the system which up- y external criteria valid ral should or shouldn't do it an fe of a premature baby, but thot whether we Polyani's arguments about the conceptual ween and religion were strengthened by the work of Thomas Kuhn (1962), who xuthented way in scientific k This awareness of the limitations of science was not nderstood. In the 19th century it was widely t science would provide answers to the eved irructed. Kuhn points nowledge is social ve but become out that scientists are not objec- atrached to thrir theories to th e extent world's problems and 'scientistm questions of value, including moral issues Weber was one of the first to point out they ignore or play down evi ce which contra hem. They operate within a framewor which out the rules of k given rather the game and which is accepted than being open to scrutiny. Kuhn paradigm to refer to ground rules was common. to be, only what that science cannot tell us what ought It tells us what 948, pp. 129 56). s possible, nor hether we should or should For Weber, w mont questions of value were the n't do it. difficult nt ones to answer. This view of the rela. sts operate within. Their commitment onship between science and religion is one that is shared by writers such as Ziadd Sardar (982), who paradigm means that, instead of objectively he 'facts, scientists operate within a closed argue that for tific knowledge scien it needs to be placed within a This different focus what makes science frame of reference and try to fit the data within this ence therefore has its dogmas in much the same way as religion does. and religion such difficult partners. Science is amoral, Science's claim to being an open system of knowl. edge has also been challenged. Like religion, science of its earing nothing for the rights and wrongs and techniques. Religion is moral, being fundamen- ts community of experts possessing specialised tally concerned with issues of good and evil, and the wledge and language which can be understood outcomes of human actions on earth and their rela only by them of the community is highly so that it is akin an exclusive club which ionship with the cosmos. Despite the cpistemological difference between hot open to outsiders. science and religion as ways of apprehending th Writers such as Polyani and agreed orld, there are strands within Western culture which Berger and Luckmann that all knowled even sci- seek to bridge the gap. New Age religions represent an tific knowledge is socially constructed It is legiti interesting development because of their use of techni mated according to the prevailing cultural conceptio cal, scientific knowledge to explain and enhance r s therefore subject to the problem of rela enomena and to use science to provide a om this perspective scientific "certainty' is dimin- rational foundation for meaning (Hess 1993). New shed and instead akes its place alongside other Age ideas are examined in greater detail on p. 421 ief systems which are used to erpret and make he world. Both systems lay claim to lit their means of arriving at it are very different. The social correlates science and religion are belief systems of religion many features common, this does not neces- sarily make them compatible. One of the main differ ces between the two is he questions that concern No matter what form religious expression takes it is them. Religion provides a to questions of ways mediated through individuals and groups; in ing and value which science cannot do. Ian Barbour other words, always expressed socially. It is not rather than s out that science is concerned with means surprising, therefore, that structural variables such as questions ends. Religion provides answers to moral gender and ethnicity are important influences on re tence, it and to timate questions about human gious expression us the nature of good and ev explains the meaning of events on earth using concepts Religion and ethnicity rma' or 'God's will. Science is not Ethnicity is widely recognised as being an important concerned with why events occur but with how the influence on religious allegiance and occur. It provides us with technological information ording to the 2001 religiosity Census those born in Australia
15same way as religion is bommitment of the bel ble rather than what we about what is physically possi nevers to the system which up- y external criteria valid ral should or shouldn't do it an fe of a premature baby, but thot whether we Polyani's arguments about the conceptual ween and religion were strengthened by the work of Thomas Kuhn (1962), who xuthented way in scientific k This awareness of the limitations of science was not nderstood. In the 19th century it was widely t science would provide answers to the eved irructed. Kuhn points nowledge is social ve but become out that scientists are not objec- atrached to thrir theories to th e extent world's problems and 'scientistm questions of value, including moral issues Weber was one of the first to point out they ignore or play down evi ce which contra hem. They operate within a framewor which out the rules of k given rather the game and which is accepted than being open to scrutiny. Kuhn paradigm to refer to ground rules was common. to be, only what that science cannot tell us what ought It tells us what 948, pp. 129 56). s possible, nor hether we should or should For Weber, w mont questions of value were the n't do it. difficult nt ones to answer. This view of the rela. sts operate within. Their commitment onship between science and religion is one that is shared by writers such as Ziadd Sardar (982), who paradigm means that, instead of objectively he 'facts, scientists operate within a closed argue that for tific knowledge scien it needs to be placed within a This different focus what makes science frame of reference and try to fit the data within this ence therefore has its dogmas in much the same way as religion does. and religion such difficult partners. Science is amoral, Science's claim to being an open system of knowl. edge has also been challenged. Like religion, science of its earing nothing for the rights and wrongs and techniques. Religion is moral, being fundamen- ts community of experts possessing specialised tally concerned with issues of good and evil, and the wledge and language which can be understood outcomes of human actions on earth and their rela only by them of the community is highly so that it is akin an exclusive club which ionship with the cosmos. Despite the cpistemological difference between hot open to outsiders. science and religion as ways of apprehending th Writers such as Polyani and agreed orld, there are strands within Western culture which Berger and Luckmann that all knowled even sci- seek to bridge the gap. New Age religions represent an tific knowledge is socially constructed It is legiti interesting development because of their use of techni mated according to the prevailing cultural conceptio cal, scientific knowledge to explain and enhance r s therefore subject to the problem of rela enomena and to use science to provide a om this perspective scientific "certainty' is dimin- rational foundation for meaning (Hess 1993). New shed and instead akes its place alongside other Age ideas are examined in greater detail on p. 421 ief systems which are used to erpret and make he world. Both systems lay claim to lit their means of arriving at it are very different. The social correlates science and religion are belief systems of religion many features common, this does not neces- sarily make them compatible. One of the main differ ces between the two is he questions that concern No matter what form religious expression takes it is them. Religion provides a to questions of ways mediated through individuals and groups; in ing and value which science cannot do. Ian Barbour other words, always expressed socially. It is not rather than s out that science is concerned with means surprising, therefore, that structural variables such as questions ends. Religion provides answers to moral gender and ethnicity are important influences on re tence, it and to timate questions about human gious expression us the nature of good and ev explains the meaning of events on earth using concepts Religion and ethnicity rma' or 'God's will. Science is not Ethnicity is widely recognised as being an important concerned with why events occur but with how the influence on religious allegiance and occur. It provides us with technological information ording to the 2001 religiosity Census those born in Australia
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