Sean Carroll – Should Science Even Talk to Religion?

To do good science, science need not speak with religion. Many scientists, even believers in God, state that science can comfortably ignore religion. A minority claim that the revelations of religion can help adjudicate knotty problems in science, such as the nature of time. But does any reality really exist beyond the expanding reach of science?

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Sean Carroll is a Research Professor in Physics at the California Institute of Technology. His research focuses on fundamental physics and cosmology.

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