Yes, I do think that science and religion will see life the same way. At a glance, they seem to be total opposites. Science deals with facts and concrete ideas that you can test over a long period of time and still get the same answer. Religion deals with faith and abstract ideas that you can't prove, but believe in nonetheless. As with any idea or set of beliefs, you will always have people who believe and people who do not believe. I believe that it is not science or religion themselves that create a division amongst people, but people themselves. Religion is a big leap for someone who can only accept the facts, which is why many scientists completely exclude religion out of their set of beliefs. This is understandable considering what religion stands for and abstract ideas have always been harder to accept than concrete ones.
Science and religion are two sets of beliefs that were made to be opposites because they arose from people with different viewpoints. In the past, many people have tried to bring science and religion together by proving that one cannot exist without the other. Usually religion exists because science needs a creator which only religion, not just science, can explain. However, these people received such fierce opposition that they either backed down or were oppressed. This is not to say that religion and science cannot ever see life the same way, just that people who believe in religion or science cannot accept that the other can also be true.
In the end, I believe that it is not the actual ideas of science and religion that cannot see life the same way, but the people who believe in those ideas that cannot ever see life the same way.
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