But then, religion is very fixed, to me,” said a 20-year-old Muslim woman in Singapore. Science should just be science,” said a 42-year-old Hindu man in Singapore. One 24-year-old Muslim man in Malaysia said both science and his religion explain the same things, just from different perspectives: “I think there is not any conflict between them. A Pew Research Center survey conducted in 2011 and 2012 that examined the views of Muslims found that, in most regions, half or more said there was no conflict between religion and science, including 54% in Malaysia. More recently, we sought to better understand the ways in which science relates to religion around the world and engaged a small group of Muslims, Hindus, and Buddhists in Southeast Asia to talk about their perspectives. Majorities of Buddhists in all 10 countries with large enough samples for analysis said science has “never disagreed” with the teachings of their religion.

As a religion Islam calls for complete acceptance of and submission to the teachings and guidance of God. Several talked about their religion as offering guidance on how to live a moral life while describing science as observable phenomena. While many believe this is an intentional design feature, as the Maya were masters in astrology, experts say it may be a coincidence. One 39-year-old Buddhist woman in Malaysia said science is something that relates to “facts and figures,” while religion helps her live a good and moral life. To many of the Buddhist interviewees, this means that science and religion cannot be in conflict and have a compatible relationship. The state collects the church tithe through the taxation system and determines the salaries of the clergy of the two official denominations and they also have a right to approve a candidate’s educational background and political opinions. Across 2004-5 ambassadors including from Bosnia and Herzegovina were received on official visits to the Bahá’í World Center in Haifa, Israel. His works have been performed and read around the world and continue to be revered almost 400 years after his death in 1616. The First Folio is a remarkable book because it is the first authoritative collection of Shakespeare’s plays ever published.

They said that Hindus have known for thousands of years that these materials provide health benefits but that scientists have confirmed only relatively recently that it’s because turmeric and copper have antimicrobial properties. These are some of the key findings from a qualitative analysis of 72 individual interviews with Muslims, Hindus, and Buddhists conducted in Malaysia and Singapore-two nations that have made sizable investments in scientific research and development in recent years and are home to religiously diverse populations-between June 17 and Aug. 8, 2019. The study included 24 people in each of the three religious groups, with an equal number in each country. In the interviews, we asked about a number of subjects that have sometimes been seen as in conflict for some people in other religions. In the words of sociologist Phil Zuckerman and researcher Gregory Paul, “Not a single advanced democracy that enjoys benign, progressive socio-economic conditions retains a high level of popular religiosity.” When people feel prosperous and secure the hold of religion weakens. “I feel like sometimes, or most of the time, they are against each other.

Someone who will try to bend the veins in our hearts to feel otherwise or someone who will rearrange our brain nerves to think otherwise is not for us. The predominant view among Hindus who were interviewed is that science and Hinduism are related and compatible. For example, Muslim interviewees said cloning would tamper with the power of God, and some Hindus and Buddhists voiced concern that these scientific developments might interfere with karma or reincarnation. Even when prompted to think about potential areas of scientific research that could raise religious concerns, relatively few Buddhists mentioned any. These interviews are not representative of religious groups either in their country or globally, but they do provide insight into how individuals describe their beliefs, in their own words, and the connections they see (or don’t see) with science. The sense that Hindus generally see little conflict with science aligns with survey findings. Their opponents see the former proposal as an attempt to introduce an explicitly religious worldview into the classroom, hence one that runs afoul of the separation of church and state. For example, many Muslims expressed the view that Islam and science are basically compatible, though they acknowledged some areas of friction, such as the theory of evolution conflicting with religious beliefs about the origins and development of human life on Earth.