lightlybow:

madameliberty:

some of y’all: science has more evidencial support than religion, and it is the more reliable and believable truth. in the ancient contest between empiricial science and religion, modern achievements have declared science as more accurate and the better source of truth.

the truth: Scientific empiricism and religion aim to understand different kinds of truths, and they have never truly been at odds. Science gives the mechanical explanation of the world. Religion gives a philosophical explanation. Both are inexorably intertwined, but each have their own realm of study. In the last 3000 years, men of science have typically also been men of religion. Much of modern science today relies upon the accomplishments and theories of men who were religious. Further, if you devote serious time to the study of either the sciences OR religions and philosophy, you will discover that there are very few discrepancies and they actually correspond to one another. The real problem comes when science attempts to make a philosophical observation, or when religion attempts to make a mechanical observation. Religion’s role is not to explain how clouds form, how cells function, or how light travels. Science’s role is not to explain the meaning of life, whether or not God exists, and what morality is. All in all, each are good and legitimate areas of study.

Tldr: science answers how, religion answers why. There’s no reason the two have to oppose each other.

It actually depends on your theological viewpoint as a number of religious groups do very much have a literal cosmology and read their texts literally, however, almost all serious modern theologians don’t read it that way. However, there have been times in the past where even very serious theologians in many religions read many things literally as explanations of origin and cosmology and so on.  Though typically broad acceptance of anything that’s treated as a literal cosmological truth end up being read metaphorically as science proves them wrong.

Basically, TL;DR Everything depends on your understanding of a given theology and which theology we’re discussing