Is there any overlap between religious views of how the world was created and scientific theories?

The current belief is that the universe is not expanding into anything, but that space and time are being created along with the . There is no "anything" beyond the...

The universe is expanding at an increasing rate, the the three theories as to what is going to happen next are: "The Big Rip": The universe will expand to the...

Scientists date rocks in the constantly changing crust and other bodies in the solar system such as visiting meteorites and the moon along with the debris from both, scientists calculate...

The calendar year is 2015 A.D. (Anno Domini), the time we count from is 0 B.C. /A.D. and the time when the Earth was created was relatively recently discovered, so...

Other possibilities have been proposed, from a planetoid captured in Earth orbit to it forming in orbit around Earth's protoplanet as a system of 2 bodies. But the is...

The solar system started out as a big ball of gas and dust some 4.6 Billion years ago. Once most of that gas collapsed in on itself to form ,...

Once was formed it was surrounded by a protoplanetary disk. This consists of dust, ices and gases. The gases tended to get blown towards the outer solar system by the...

In case of antipodal beliefs in cosmology and a religion about universe, science could exercise a supervisory control over religion. Two millenniums ago, Aristarchus could not do that. But...

Recall that a is the ecological role that is held by an organism--it includes the specific set of biotic (living) and abiotic (nonliving) resources that the organism uses in its...

Democritus was a more of a natural philosopher than a scientist, and nothing of his wriiting survives; he was certainly not an empirical scientist. He is said to have developed...