Peter Harrison - The Territories of Science and Religion (Lecture 1)

Professor Peter Harrison - The Territories of Science and Religion, recorded 14 February 2011.

So familiar are the concepts 'science' and 'religion', and so central to Western culture have been the activities and achievements that are usually labelled 'religious' and 'scientific', that it is natural to assume that they have been enduring features of the cultural landscape of the West. However, this view is misleading.

Only in the past few hundred years have religious beliefs and activities been bounded by a common notion 'religion' and set apart from the 'non-religious' or secular domains of human existence. The idea of natural sciences as discrete activities conducted in isolation from religious and moral concerns is even more recent, dating from the nineteenth century. Both categories, 'religion' and 'science', distort what they claim to represent.

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[mdiem]

@4:45 to skip introduction.

[mdiem]

Has anyone else noticed that all educational lecture videos on youtube have very low volume and are hard to hear?

[thegreeensky]

nice video.. interesting topic...

[israelsocratus]

Bible’s stories Old Bible story: "He... hanged the Earth upon nothing " / Job 26:7 / New Bible story: According to the many scientific experts however, space didn't exist prior to the Big Bang It is possible to say, "He... hanged the Big Bang upon nothing " This situation is strange But if we think that ‘nothing’ is a Reference Frame ( Vacuum) then the situation will be different # Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts  / Richard Feynman /

[MOIZIYAH]

science doesn't work all the time pracically and i too has feudalism and jealousy and pettiness

[mdiem]

@ninjatoothpaste

Accidental, I'm sure.

[ninjatoothpaste]

@mdiem Thanks, I like it when someone is considerate on youtube - doesn't happen often :)

[tokotokotoko3]

Really great lecture - clears a lot of common confusion I think. I'm excited to hear the rest.

[thruthem]

"Science will win because it works." - S. Hawkin