Agreement of Science and Religion
True religion and true science can never be in conflict; any apparent contradiction indicates misunderstanding of one or both.
Abdu'l-Bahá taught that religion and science are the two wings with which humanity can soar. A bird with only one wing cannot fly. Religion without science becomes superstition; science without religion becomes materialism. When properly understood, scientific and religious truth are complementary expressions of the one reality.
Religion and science are the two wings upon which man's intelligence can soar into the heights, with which the human soul can progress.
The Bahá'í harmony of science and religion anticipates modern dialogue between scientific and religious ways of knowing.
Paris Talks
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- What the Bahá'í Faith says about doubt
Abdu'l-Bahá's two-wings claim is usable in practice: religion and science cannot genuinely conflict, so a conflict you find marks a misunderstanding of one or the other. The claim costs the tradition something, since it commits Bahá'ís to revising a religious reading when the evidence runs the other way.