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==Science and religion==

==Science and religion==

Without using the term pantheism, many people who are not [[traditionally]] [[religious]] acknowledge the feeling that [[nature]] is [[sacred]]. While [[panentheism]] is a theological construction, pantheism probably has more [[grass roots]] appeal among ordinary people, [[artists]], and [[scientists]]. As the most important [[challenge]] that [[the sciences]] pose to [[traditional]] [[religion]] is their [[skepticism]] about the existence of "another world" not of [[human]] making or open to human [[inquiry]], [[supernaturalism]] is less and less an [[option]] among scientifically educated [[populations]]. In the [[engagement]] of science and religion issues, the relevant religious alternatives tend to reduce either to pantheism or to [[panentheism]]. Astrophysicist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan Carl Sagan] spoke for those who prefer a straightforward pantheistic [[orientation]] over what they regard as the equivocations of [[panentheism]]: "A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by [[modern]] [[science]], might be able to draw forth reserves of [[reverence]] and [[awe]] untapped by the [[conventional]] [[faiths]]. Sooner or later, such a religion will [[emerge]]".

Without using the term pantheism, many people who are not [[traditionally]] [[religious]] acknowledge the feeling that [[nature]] is [[sacred]]. While [[panentheism]] is a theological construction, pantheism probably has more [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass_roots grass roots] appeal among ordinary people, [[artists]], and [[scientists]]. As the most important [[challenge]] that [[the sciences]] pose to [[traditional]] [[religion]] is their [[skepticism]] about the existence of "another world" not of [[human]] making or open to human [[inquiry]], [[supernaturalism]] is less and less an [[option]] among scientifically educated [[populations]]. In the [[engagement]] of science and religion issues, the relevant religious alternatives tend to reduce either to pantheism or to [[panentheism]]. Astrophysicist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan Carl Sagan] spoke for those who prefer a straightforward pantheistic [[orientation]] over what they regard as the equivocations of [[panentheism]]: "A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by [[modern]] [[science]], might be able to draw forth reserves of [[reverence]] and [[awe]] untapped by the [[conventional]] [[faiths]]. Sooner or later, such a religion will [[emerge]]".

 

==Bibliography==

==Bibliography==

*Albanese, Catherine. Nature Religion in America: From the Algonkian Indians to the New Age. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

*Albanese, Catherine. Nature Religion in America: From the Algonkian Indians to the New Age. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.