SCIENCE AND RELIGION: POSSIBILITY OF COGNITIVE AND COGITAL INTEGRITY

Abstract

The paper is concerned with revealing the common
grounds of science and religion. The possibility of coexistence
of scientific and religious knowledge has been marked
as they expressed different forms of studying reality and
interaction with it. It has been shown that the most productive
is the search of cognitive and cogital integrity of science and
religion. The article analyses V. Styopin's concept saying that
the foundations of science consist of three blocs: ideals and
standards of research, world scientific picture and philosophical
bases. The latter include philosophical and epistemological
faith as a special source of world outlook, knowledge
and cognition. Faith in its philosophical and epistemological
aspect is a constituent of man's world outlook and is a core of
any cognitive practices, including research. Simultaneously
faith is the core of religion. Hence this paper suggests an idea
of faith as a common metaphysical ground for science and
religion.