Science vs Religious - What's the difference?
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(countable) A particular discipline or branch of learning, especially one dealing with measurable or systematic principles rather than intuition or natural ability.
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, title= (uncountable, archaic) Knowledge gained through study or practice; mastery of a particular discipline or area.
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* 1611 , (King James Version of the Bible), 6:20-21
(uncountable) The collective discipline of study or learning acquired through the scientific method; the sum of knowledge gained from such methods and discipline.
* 1951 January 1, (Albert Einstein), letter to Maurice Solovine, as published in Letters to Solovine (1993)
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, title= (uncountable) Knowledge derived from scientific disciplines, scientific method, or any systematic effort.
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(uncountable) The scientific community.
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To cause to become versed in science; to make skilled; to instruct.
Concerning religion.
Committed to the practice of religion.
Highly dedicated, as one would be to a religion.
A member of a religious order, i.e. a monk or nun.
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 354:
As nouns the difference between science and religious
is that science is (countable) a particular discipline or branch of learning, especially one dealing with measurable or systematic principles rather than intuition or natural ability or science can be while religious is a member of a religious order, ie a monk or nun.As a verb science
is to cause to become versed in science; to make skilled; to instruct.As an adjective religious is
concerning religion.science
English
(wikipedia science)Etymology 1
From (etyl) science, from (etyl) .Noun
Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science , too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
- For by his mightie Science he had seene / The secret vertue of that weapon keene [...].
- If we conceive God's or science', before the creation, to be extended to all and every part of the world, seeing everything as it is, his ' science or sight from all eternity lays no necessity on anything to come to pass.
- Shakespeare's deep and accurate science in mental philosophy
- O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding vain and profane babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.
- I have found no better expression than "religious" for confidence in the rational nature of realityWhenever this feeling is absent, science degenerates into uninspired empiricism.
Harms to Health from the Pursuit of Profits, passage=In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.}}
Coordinate terms
* artDerived terms
* applied science * behavioral science * blind with science * computer science * dismal science * down to a science * earth science * exact science * fundamental science * hard science * information science * library science * life science * marine science * natural science * pseudoscience * pure science * science fiction * scientific * scientifically * scientist * social science * soft science * superscience * agriscience * antiscience * archival science * Bachelor of Science * bionanoscience * bioscience * cognitive science * computer science * computer-science * crank science * creation science * cyberscience * dismal science * down to a science * earth science * environmental science * ethnoscience * forensic science * formal science * geographic information science * geoscience * geroscience * glycoscience * hard science * Hollywood science * information science * junk science * Letters and Science * library and information science * library science * life science * Master of Science * McScience * multiscience * nanoscience * natural science * neuroscience * nonscience * non-science * omniscience * palaeoscience * philosophy of science * photoscience * physical science * planetary science * political science * pop-science * popular science * proscience * protoscience * pseudoscience * pseudo-science * rocket science * science centre * science fair * science fiction * science room * scienceless * sciencelike * social science * social-science * soil science * space science * sweet science * systems science * technoscience * unscienceSee also
* engineering * technologyVerb
(scienc)- (Francis)
Etymology 2
See (scion).religious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It is the job of this court to rule on legal matters. We do not consider religious issues.
- I was much more religious as a teenager than I am now.
- I'm a religious fan of college basketball.
Antonyms
* (concerning religion) * (committed to religion) * (highly dedicated)Hyponyms
* Muslim, Jew, Hindu, Buddhist, Baha'i, Wiccan, Eckist, Druid, Jain, , Sikh, Taoist, Zoroastrian, Unitarian Universalist, New Ager, reconstructionist, LaVeyan Satanist, Scientologist, Rastafarian, Taoist, pagan, spiritist, humanist, Thelemite, ConfucianistNoun
(religious)- Towards the end of the seventh century the monks of Fleury [...] clandestinely excavated the body of Benedict himself, plus the corpse of his even more shadowy sister and fellow religious , Scholastica.