Science and religion

1. Entity type Lemma
2. Original titleНаука и религия
3. Language term Russian
4. lemma author Saprykin, Dmitry
5. lemma category Various approaches to the problem of correlation between science and theology
6. Publication date 2000
7. lemma work Войно-Ясенецкий Лука, Архиепископ [Author]. Science and religion
8. lemma manifestations Очерки гнойной хирургии : Essays of purulent surgery
9. Keywords phenomena - intuition and scientific investigation
10. Citations
    1. https://azbyka.ru/otechnik/Luka_Vojno-Jasenetskij/nauka-i-religija/
11. Lemma body

    1. The main issue of the work is: does science contradict to religion?

       St. Luke believes that the reason for the opinion of science and religion contradiction lies in superficial knowledge both in the field of science and in the field of religion and philosophy. Science, as the author believes, integrates knowledge about manifestations of life, nature, as we contemplate it, but not about its essences (phenomena, not noumena), not about the world, as it is in itself, in essence. We can only grasp by our mind an external fact, and not a thing in itself. The field of exact science is limited in the same way as the organs of scientific cognition are limited in their cognitive ability. Man wants and needs to know what is beyond science, what has not yet been achieved and, by its very nature, lies beyond its limits. This knowledge is also achieved by those higher abilities of the spirit that science does not have. First of all, this is intuition, that is, the direct instinct of truth, which guesses, sees it, foreknows prophetically where the scientific method of knowledge does not reach.

       Science, the scientist believes, proves to us the necessity of religion, according to the law of causality leads us to the Primary cause of the world, and religion answers Who is this creative Original reason not only of the world, but also of man. "Science without religion – is "heaven without the sun." Science, clothed with the light of religion, is an inspired thought piercing with a bright light the darkness of this world. Religion therefore moves science, because in religious experience we come into contact with the eternal Reason, the Voice of the World. "

       If we understand religion in the sense of prayer, as a mystical aspiration, as a flight of the spirit, then there can be as many contradictions between religion in this sense and science as there are between mathematics and music or between mathematics and love. If we take from religion its intellectual (cognitive, accessible to the mind) statements about reality - that side of it that is common both for religion and science, it turns out that there are no contradictions and can not be in essence, because all these provisions refer to essences that lie outside the competence of science and not the phenomena accessible to it, for example: God exists, Christ is truly the God-man who was crucified and risen and will come again to this earth, etc.

       The second error, according to St. Luke, is that we mix science with the opinion of scientists. Meanwhile, there are these opinions that sometimes really contradict religion, but in time it turns out that they contradict both nature and science. "We need a living knowledge and a sighted faith, and only their synthesis and inextricable connection will open the possibility of creative life. For the wise, inspired by faith, work the life. "