y to teach others about religious truth to convert and help them. It includes myths and doctrines. Myths are stories that help people explain things if there is no accurate information regarding difficult subjects. It may be a story about the creation of the world, or about the vision of the world. Doctrines are more reasonable teachings regarding religion. It solves religious problems and gives explanations supported by other sources. Social form of religion involves the community. People meet in churches, denominations cults and sects to encourage them selves and give hope to each other. Many different social activities exist in connection with religion. Those are practical expressions of religion, which is getting closer to the sacred. They sing, pray, meditate or give ritual sacrifices.
Barbour presents four ways of relating religion and science. They ask same questions and they disagree, which creates conflict. Scientists who reject religion see scientific method as the only reliable way to acquire knowledge. In contrast theists who believe everything the Bible teaches and reject other scientifically projected explanations of world creation. They may ask different questions and do not disagree, which places them into independent positions from each other. Two different languages are used. Science uses language of observation and religion uses language of norms. Scientific language is open to empirical testing and religious is not. They f
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