Science and Theology Practice

Since the dawn of mankind, there were no specification between science and theology practice. As civilization advances, so does our information and knowledge expands to understand the changes in this world and-or universe, thus giving off offspring of two distinct field of science and religion which are scientists and theologians. However, with growth of inquiring topics and the world we see around raises questions about who is right or wrong. Therefore, what distinguishes the field in their thought processes, research, and expression of their thoughts? In addition there have been debates from the left to the right, from knowledge gained or regurgitating knowledge, and the comparison of why they are quite different. Scientists and theologians may have differences on the outside, but deep in the core they both approach day to day life empirically similar.

In scientists’ everyday routine usually begin with their thoughts wrapped around a topic, recently absorbed readings, or research (past, present, and-or future). Therefore in each and every scientific inquiry, a scientist goes through multiple steps of the scientific method: asking questions and obtaining background information of the topic of interest, constructing a hypothesis, doing experimental research, analyzing collected data, and formulating a conclusion of the results of the research and sharing the knowledge gained from the research to their peers. In addition, scientists’ research are usually either individual works or collaborations of other scientists from local to across world; and if the information collected does not correlate with their hypothesis then they are forced back to the drawing board, and look at their collected data to figure out why does it not work. However, in order to begin a research there has to be some type of funding to keep the project going until the results are obtain or not, or the funding is cut out. As a result, the scientist objectives are to searches for the understanding and the truth in the surrounding they live in.

As for theologians, they start off the beginning of the day with their first thought mainly focusing on God. Therefore, starting off with a pray with or without a small devotional to their God or Gods. Then they would dive into the topic that peaked their interest based on their ideas in order to justify or defend their thoughts. In order to justify or defend their thoughts, they must research information from their religious text and look for similar text to the topic of interest. Afterwards, the theologian would try to understand the text by looking for more evidence from articles and other theologian’s writing on the topic of interest. If the topic is based on location or physical objects such pottery, weapon made iron or bronze, or building structure describe in the bible can look into the archeological