1. Both believe absolute truth exists.
2. Both are pursuing the truth.
3. Both respect and protect the truth by building boundaries around it and confronting heretics.
Science and religion are not like the arts or business. Arts and business have no absolute truth to protect – they may have a status quo to maintain, but that can change.
And heretics in science, while confronted, may be useful in breaking thru to new discoveries of what the truth is. This is where science and religion differ:
- Science is on a quest to discover new things that reveal more of the truth.
- Religion (at least biblical Christianity) believes all the truth to be revealed, already has been. The quest is in understanding. believing and following the truth we know.
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