Scientific and religious in the context of modern culture

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the peculiarities of scientific and religious worldviews, focusing on the culturological aspect. Emphasis is placed on the need to develop theories to overcome the crisis of man-made civilization. Namely, the development of certain criteria that allow to generalize and organize the accumulated experience of human attitude to nature and space, knowledge and faith, to their personal and collective responsibility, using scientific and religious worldviews not as antagonistic, but as two fundamental cultural arrays that complement one one. Knowledge or faith? It is stated that science, with all its achievements and achievements, will not protect us from social upheavals or calamities, and its guidelines and recommendations may require situational ethical or social adjustments (for example, the invention of nuclear energy by scientists and its application - atomic bombs or nuclear power plants). ). Science is a rational powerful tool for the creative improvement of human living space, but at the same time a dangerous destroyer in the hands of mankind.