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Integration of Science and the Origin of Religion

Stone Age's teaching experience to distinguish between what poisoned them and what
satisfied their hunger. Their minds gather the empirical reality necessary to survive.
They do the best they can do in drawing conclusions about the world outside them.
They assume that they are at the center of the universe, which they consider flat, small
and under the sky. They believe that if they eat strong animal flesh, they may gain
their spirits, or if they eat some of the body of a deceased leader, they may gain their
special qualities.

For people in the stone age, it will be a passion, and they see the world filled with
many spirits. They see their shadow in the water and believe that what they see is
their spirit. People connect many things that happen to spirits and magic. Lightning,
thunder, rain, tides, procreation, and fire are all magical. And fire is not just a magic
product it is a form of spirit. Their view of the world comes to them with a created
story. This is a story told and accepted without acknowledgment of the difference
between fact and fantasy. Every society has a story about creation, each having a
different touch. Storytellers describe their world in ways they can understand. There
is a story about the God who has created it from the earth and a story among others
that they were created from the bark of a tree. The occasional exception to the
universal order can be described as the work of evil spirits, a kind of evil. There is a
story of evil and fear, a story with a demon that threatens something like a thing that
produces greater joy than without danger. People believe that if the gods can do
magic, they can do it too. The earliest form of religious ritual is magical effort
through imitation, such as painting a face in a pregnant woman's belly in the hope that
the miracle of the image will encourage birth. They have no sense of social progress
or image of human ability beyond their means. The imagination of people with
biological potential for genius and normal intelligence is limited by their culture. If,
on the contrary, modern society will emerge more quickly.
 In the midst of turmoil and the changing times due to the influence of
globalization that swept the world today, would be questioned a question, "Still how
important is the religion to humans?" Of course, there will be various answers that are
influenced by the background of human life.

During this time religion is an institution that plays a major role in terms of
human spiritual processing. But lately, religion is dead and powerless to encourage
people to seek out the ultimate spiritual truth and to prevent the fall of man on
negative trends. Even religion tends to be the trigger of radicalism, fundamentalism,
and terrorism that is rife in the East which is considered as a natural life of religiosity
and the source of the birth of several major religions.

It is not entirely the fault of religion, but the main determining factor lies
within the man himself. There are some fundamental issues of religion today, such as
the Absolute Truth Claim, Fundamentalism, Absolute Obedience, and
Institutionalism.

According to Weber, there are three important aspects that must be done by
science to gain valid knowledge. First, Practical injunction or exemplary is a direct
action or verification through example, paradigm, experiment, rule of thumb. Second,
Direct Apprehension, Illumination, or Experience is a direct approach based on
practical commands, namely by conducting direct research to obtain some
hypothetical data from physical experience, mental experience, and spiritual
experience or research through the mediation of experimental data that mediates
between direct experience and approach directly. Third, Communal checking, ie
checking together, the process of checking the results of the data immediately with
others who are competent to research and conduct experiments, whether for the
rejection or approval.

Integration of Religion and Science is interpreted as a process of merging and

adjustment between the elements of Religion and Science, resulting in a combination
of Religion and Science which then between the two have the harmony and not
contrary. And also, religion and science in human life are two different things as a
source of knowledge and source of value for human life. Although in the
philosophical framework both are different, in the historical context has been done
consolidative efforts, both in the form of counterproductive and in the form of
mutualistic. This consolidative effort is made so that between the two is not an
instrument and a medium of conflict and a source of conflict for human life, but
instead attempted to be a source of inspiration to increase the wisdom and dynamic
awareness in human beings in relation to nature and in relation to fellow human
beings and in relation to the creator. Thus, both religion and science both serve for the
benefit of human welfare and prosperity.

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