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Antagonism Since the scientific revolution, the relationship of science to religion and spirituality has developed in complex ways.[103][104] Historian John Hedley Brooke describes wide variations: The natural sciences have been invested with religious meaning, with antireligious implications and, in many contexts, with no religious significance at all."[104] The popular notion of antagonisms between science and religion[105][106] has historically originated with "thinkers with a social or political axe to grind" rather than with the natural philosophers themselves.[104] Though physical and biological scientists today avoid supernatural explanations to describe reality[107][108][109][note 8], many scientists continue to consider science and spirituality to be complementary, not contradictory.[110][111] Holism Main article: Holism During the twentieth century the relationship between science and spirituality has been influenced both by Freudian psychology, which has accentuated the boundaries between the two areas by accentuating individualism and secularism, and by developments in particle physics, which reopened the debate about complementarity between scientific and religious discourse and rekindled for many an interest in holistic conceptions of reality.[104]:322 These holistic conceptions were championed by New Age spiritualists in a type of quantum mysticism that they claim justifies their spiritual beliefs,[112][113] though quantum physicists themselves on the whole reject such attempts as being pseudoscientific.[114][115] Scientific research Neuroscientists are trying to learn more about how the brain functions during reported spiritual experiences.[116][117] The psychology of religion uses a variety of metrics to measure spirituality.[118] In keeping with a general increase in interest in spirituality and complementary and alternative treatments, prayer has garnered attention among some behavioral scientists. Masters and Spielmans[119] have conducted a meta-analysis of the effects of distant intercessory prayer, but detected no discernible effects. |
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