Beyond Athens and Jerusalem: Re—Visioning the Science—Religion Conflict

Abstract

The clash between science and religion has been highlighted in recent years by the prominent attacks of a generation of "new atheists" on the coherence of belief in God and the viability of religion as a social institution. However, both sides are arguing from a shared, if implicit, definition of God and religion. The Bahá'í claim to the unity of science and religion entails radical redefinitions of the conceptual framework of the debate and suggests a "third way", one which finds support in some of the deep mathematical symmetries in the laws of physics.