Prof. dr Djuro Susnjic,

Belgrade

RELIGION AND SCIENCE

Summary

Abstract: A possibility and necessity of the dialogue between science and religion is considered, enabled by the existence of rational dimensions in the both systems of ideas, beliefs and practices. Science and religion are two distinct but not two hostile paths: two equally relevant efforts of human spirit! Science and religion would have less intellectual disputes and social conflicts if only both of them would explicate their principles, and then in even dialogue, espy and evaluate possibilities and frontiers of their principles and sorts of enabled questions and answers. Religion might be interesting for science as it opens new and unknown fields of human experience, and continually points to frontiers of science and its methods. In this context it might be said that frontier between science and religion is historically changeable, which does not mean that it can escape. Religion is not a sort of less developed science, but an independent way of thinking, beliefs and actions, offering to believer a solution of some problems otherwise unbearable, even by assistance of science and its methods.

Key words: religion, science, methodological questions and frontiers, two distinct/equally valuable paths.