It was in the 19th century that the concept of "science" received its modern shape with new titles emerging such as "biology" and "biologist", "physics", and "physicist", among other technical fields and titles; institutions and communities were founded, and unprecedented applications to and interactions with other aspects of society and culture occurred.
Isaac Newton's book Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687), whose title translates to "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy", reflects the then-current use of the words "natural philosophy", akin to "systematic study of nature".
Public acceptance of scientific facts may sometimes be influenced by religious beliefs such as in the United States, where some reject the concept of evolution by natural selection, especially regarding human beings.
Nevertheless, the American National Academy of Sciences has written that "the evidence for evolution can be fully compatible with religious faith", Originally what is today known as "science" was pioneered as "natural philosophy".
Without evolution we couldn't have the fullest capacity to understand the divine...
Showed first 250 characters Without evolution we couldn't have the fullest capacity to understand the divine. We don't have the same reasoning abilities as that of our ancestor the primitive man.This coincided with the refining of "science" (from the studies of "natural philosophy") and of "religion" as distinct concepts in the preceding few centuries - partly due to professionalization of the sciences, the Protestant Reformation, colonization, and globalization.Since then the relationship between science and religion have been characterized as conflict, harmony, complexity, or mutual independence.Most 21st-century Buddhists view science as complementary to their beliefs.While the classification of the material world by the ancient Indians and Greeks into air, earth, fire and water was more philosophical, and proto-scientists like Anaxagoras impiously questioned certain popular views of Greek divinities, medieval Middle Eastern scholars used practical and experimental observation to classify materials.) a conflict thesis, suggesting that religion and science have been in conflict methodologically, factually and politically throughout history.Christianity accepted reason within the ambit of faith.In Christendom, reason was considered subordinate to revelation, which contained the ultimate truth and this truth could not be challenged.Some contemporary scientists (such as Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss, Peter Atkins, and Donald Prothero) subscribe to this thesis.However, the conflict thesis has lost favor among most contemporary historians of science.The development of sciences (especially natural philosophy) in Western Europe during the Middle Ages, has considerable foundation in the works of the Arabs who translated Greek and Latin compositions.The works of Aristotle played a major role in the institutionalization, systematization, and expansion of reason.