Today we live in a scientific age in which almost every aspect of our lives have been affected by science. Since the scientific revolution during the seventeenth century, science has continued to exert tremendous influence on what we think and do. The impact of science has been particularly strong on traditional religious beliefs.
Many basic religious concepts are crumbling under the pressure of modern science and are no longer acceptable to the intellectual and the well-informed man. No longer is it possible to assert truth derived merely through theological speculations or based on the authority of religious scriptures in isolation to scientific considerations. For instance, the belief that the earth lies in the centre of the universe once upheld as sacred in certain religions had been completely demolished with the advent of scientific thought. To cite another example, the findings of modern psychologists indicate that the human mind, like his physical body, works according to natural, causal laws without the presence of an unchanging soul taught by some religions.
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