Relationship between religion and science in modern world: analysis approaches to the problem

The main research subject is the problem relationship between religion and science in modern world. Since a unified position in relation to the evaluation of these relations is missing, the article analyzes the main approaches to solving this problem is incompatibility and conflict, independence, dialog and integration. Most contemporary researchers in this issue do not support the thesis that religion and science are in conflict with each other. The most popular is a point of view, considering religion and science as an independent field of knowledge of reality, having its own subject and methods of research. Some researchers believe that religion and science are “overlapping” region of the knowledge, particularly the concept of the structure and appearance of the world, life and man. In this areas they can dialog with each other. The adherents of the position integration believe that scientific discoveries of recent times given the opportunity to prove the truth certain religious ideas. This suggests that, over time, can form a single set of ideological views, recognized in religion and in science. From the author's point of view the processes happening today in the sphere of the relations of religion and science is complex and ambiguous. It is obvious that the institutional integration of religion and science is impossible and is not subject to any public needs. Religion and science are separate social institutions that perform different social functions. However, in the ideological field there is a constant mutual work of analysis and evaluation of ideas and concepts. New breakthroughs non-classical science in the study of the nature of matter, micro and macrocosm, creation of fundamental theories of the world, life and man in the twentieth century only reinforced this process. Interestingly, he was accompanied not only mutual criticism, as it was previously, but also the release of such concepts, ideas and representations that have identical contents and about the same are understood as in religious teachings and scientific theories. This process is due to a real social need, namely, to overcome the feeling of cognitive dissonance, which a modern person when meeting with religious and scientific ideas about the world. For this reason, the possibility of overcoming of these contradictions continues to be of interest, as theologians and scientists.

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