Bahá’í teachings explore how science and religion can work together through reason, observation and faith to understand the physical and spiritual world.
A former church member reflects on science, religious racism, diversity, melanin and why faith should reject prejudice in favor of truth, dignity and inclusion.
The science end of it is clear enough: our species appeared several hundred thousand years ago in Africa, one of several hominid species of that period, including our ancestral branch Homo erectus, the first of our genus to venture outside Africa.
Conflicts between science and religion — perhaps more accurately, between practitioners of these great fields of endeavor — have been around throughout history.