Science and Religion

Here is a column about the compatibility of science and religion. Not only is there no incompatibility between science and religion; there can't be. Science is an attempt to understand the natural world. It has nothing to say about (1) whether there is a supernatural world or (2) what the supernatural world is like, if there is such a world. Think of the natural world as a box. Science makes claims about what's inside the box. It has nothing to say about what's outside the box. Religion makes claims about what's outside the box.