How do you reconcile your religion with science?

Answer 1

There are still some who say that science must adapt, because The Bible is literally true. They say that if, for example, the world is literally six thousand years old, then any scientific evidence for a much greater age must mean that scientists do not really understand the evidence. This view is very much in the minority and declining.

The alternative is for religion to adapt. As long ago as the ealiest days of Christianity, the early Church Father, Origen (On First Principles, 3.1.1): "Now what man of intelligence will believe that the first and the second and the third day, and the evening and the morning existed without the sun and moon and stars? And that the first day if we may so call it, was even without a heaven? And who is so silly as to believe that God, after the manner of a farmer, "planted a paradise eastward in Eden", and set in it a visible and palpable "tree of life", of such a sort that anyone who tasted its fruit with his bodily teeth would gain life: and again that one could partake of "good and evil" by masticating the fruit taken from the tree of that name? And when God is said to "walk in the paradise in the cool of the day" and Adam to hide himself behind a tree, I do not think anyone will doubt that these are figurative expressions which indicate certain mysteries through a semblance of history and not through actual events." In the face of this, it is almost amazing that Christians continue to believe that the Bible is literally true.

Similarly, when the Bible talks of giants, including Goliath whom David killed, science finds no evidence that giants ever lived. Since Chronicles was clearly sourced from the Book of Kings, the Chronicler's omission of the story of David and Goliath shows that he was not convinced about the historicity of the story of David and Goliath, although he implicitly accepted the former existence of Goliath. The Chronicler's doubts go some way towards supporting the scientific position, while his willingness to alter the historical record shows that the scriptures were never really considered as unchallengeable truth.

The precedent demonstrated by the Chronicler must be followed by Christians if the Bible is to be reconciled with science. What does not accord with the facts as we know them must be accepted as allegorical or as ancient myth and legend in the same way as the legend of King Arthur today.

Answer 2

science is the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of thestructure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment and religion is kinda the same thing, but religion can be taken in without any background information or prove. I personally think religion ruins era's of peace such as in the Roman times.