Religion & Science

Religion and Science

This exciting new project will investigate questions concerning the relationship between religion and science. The aim of the project is not only to explore age-old questions concerning the compatibility of religious faith with scientific belief and practice, but to explore the complex history of the interaction between religion and science; sociological questions concerning the scientific background of religious practitioners and the faith background of many scientists; and philosophical and theological questions concerning the nature of the relationship between religious belief, practice and faith with scientific belief and practice. 

UCD Lecture Series: Buddhism and Science

The first strand in this project concerns Buddhism and Physics. In a new series of lectures, we will be exploring the parallels and differences between Buddhism and physics in their quest for ultimate truth about our reality. 

Buddhism is a path to seeing the true nature of things, a way of seeing how life really is and how to live well in this. This path to the truth was originally laid out by the Buddha, over 2,500 years ago, and to this day people who practice his teachings have engaged with their own quest to understand the true nature of things.

Science is the systematic study of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment. This is done through thinking and through practical activity, and, like Buddhism, has as its goal the exploration of the nature of the world, and the discovery of the true nature of things.