Faith and Doubt in Science and Religion

One of the contexts in which religion and science come into conflict is with regard to faith and doubt. Generally speaking, we associate faith with religion, which is opposed to doubt, and doubt with science, which is opposed to faith. Some critics of science have argued that science is also based o...

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Autor principal: Raman, Varadaraja V. (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell 2004
En: Zygon
Año: 2004, Volumen: 39, Número: 4, Páginas: 941-956
Otras palabras clave:B intelligibility faith
B skeptic's doubt
B sciencis
B Religious Faith
B quotidian doubt
B Agnosticism
B verificatory doubt
B quotidian faith
B Gnosis
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Sumario:One of the contexts in which religion and science come into conflict is with regard to faith and doubt. Generally speaking, we associate faith with religion, which is opposed to doubt, and doubt with science, which is opposed to faith. Some critics of science have argued that science is also based on faith; others have shown that there is doubt in the religious context also. In this essay I clarify these positions by defining different types of faith and different types of doubt.
ISSN:1467-9744
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: Zygon
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2004.00630.x