Science and Theology: Befriending Each Other Epistemically

Science and Theology:
Befriending Each Other Epistemically

The author wants to indicate the need for dialogue
between science and religion for the sake of human wellbeing.
Science and theology have ever been the two most powerful and 
influential enterprises of humans determining the properties of 
their very being and defining the destiny of the humanity at
large. The dictums and contours of the world of their meaning
have been extensively processed by science and theology.
The apparent dissonance between them, as was vivid in the
past and even today, leaves one amused as to their meaningmaking
task besides raising several serious fundamental

questions.
Given the interwoven and overarching framework

of

their enquiry, what justification is there for the discordant
note that they strike with each other? The tension between the
religious experience and the quest for an absolute and certain
knowledge, does it betray a fundamental dichotomy in the
very structure of our rationality or our failure to reconcile the
seemingly opposing elements of our knowledge-process? The 

belief in the fundamental unity of human rationality and the
concern of science and theology with fundamental questions
refuse  to admit a fundamental dichotomy at their conceptual
domains. There can be no tension between truth and truth. Once
we discover the unitary conceptual grounds and frameworks
of interaction, we will be able to identify the real problem in
the apparent discordance between science and theology. The
author argues that the assimilation and integration between
science and religion becomes an imperative for the humanity
as well. He agrees with Whitehead that  “When we consider
what religion is for mankind, and what science is, it is no
exaggeration to say that the future course of history depends
upon the decision of this generation as to the relations between
them”