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Opinion: Can Religion and Science Coexist?

For hundreds of years, there have been several debates that have permeated our history as unsolvable questions, long abandoned for any hope of an answer, and instead left to be used as mental exercises for philosophers and sociologists. Is the development of artificial intelligence ethical? Should mankind experiment in genetic engineering? What came first, the chicken or the egg? While all of these prompts are all equally significant and worthy of consideration, no other debate has manipulated the course of history quite like the question of whether science and religion can coexist or not. However, while both have long been considered to be polar opposites and thus incompatible on the most basic level, has there truly been an effort to compare the two's similarities, instead of only recognizing their differences? It is of my belief that while there are indeed definite cleavages between the two fields, there is also a substantial amount of crossover between the two, and that surpris...