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Science and Religion - Coggle Diagram

- - - - in the US, many members of various Christian evangelical churches still reject evolution and believe in creationism
        
        on the other hand, the Catholic Church has no issues with Evolutionary Theory
- - - - rejects authority, speculation, or rationalism alone as a source of knowledge
      - it is based on empirical methods
        
        observations about nature have to be explained in terms of empirical evidence
- - - - from the Middle Ages, it paid for priests, monks, and friars to study at the universities and insisted that science and mathematics should be a compulsory part of the syllabus
        
        by the 17th century, the Jesuit order had become a leading scientific organisation in Europe
    - - founded by future abbot Gregor Mendel
    - - George Lemaitre
- - - - thus... outside the realm of science
      - similarly, supernatural, or religious explanations for natural phenomena are not acceptable in science