ABSTRACT
The sciences were instrumental in dethroning the religious view of the world and replacing it with a rational, intellectual model of reality. Hence religion has styled itself as opposed to the sciences since the age of the intellectual enlightenment. However, it is time to stop the antagonism, because the sciences, and especially physics, have radically changed over the last century. Quantum physics has promoted the idea that the world is more than matter; it is energy which appears to derive from an unknown source. Quantum physicists have tried to reconcile their science with ancient religious views of the universe, and in particular with mystical traditions. While the ordinary person in the street still thinks in terms of ‘religion versus science’, this battle has long since been dispensed with by scientists themselves. Research has moved far from long-held beliefs that science and religion are incompatible.
