Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer
“Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.” Comment on this statement critically in the light of emerging sociological contexts in Europe, USA and India.
- UPSC 2009
- Religion and Society
Albert Einstein wrote these words in a contribution to Science, Philosophy and Religion: A Symposium (1941). For him, science can only establish what is, not what should be. Religion, meaning a deep aspiration towards truth and values, supplies the goals science serves. Religion, in turn, must accept science's findings about facts. Einstein rejected a personal…
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- Sociological reading
- Europe: science without church, but not without values
- USA: religion resisting science
- India: coexistence under strain
- Critical assessment
- Conclusion
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