宗教与近代科学的兴起

Religion and the Rising of Modern Science

科学与宗教是人类文化中的两大重要因素。宗教曾对近代科学的兴起起过致命的迫害和阻滞作用 ,但它同时也是近代科学兴起的一个积极因素。科学与宗教是辩证的关系 ,宗教不会随着科学的昌明而消失 ,而是随着人类的进步以不同的形式得到发展。

Religion and science are important components of human culture. While religion seriously hindered the progress of modern science, it also unmistakably played an active role in the rising of science in the modern history. Such a dialectic relation between the two speaks not for the vanishing of the former in an age of prospering science, but its development following a different direction.