AN UNFINISHED DEBATE - WHAT ARE THE AIMS OF RELIGION AND SCIENCE

I discuss the kinds of fundamental questions that must be addressed by people who develop theories about how religion and science are (or sh ould be) related. After categorizing these questions as axiological, e pistemological, ontological, or semantic, I focus on those that concer n the goals of religion and science (the axiological issues). By disti nguishing between epistemic and practical goals, individual and collec tive goals, and manifest and latent goals, I identify seven axiologica l questions. The various answers that religion/science theorists give or presuppose to these axiological questions help to explain why such deep, ongoing differences continue among them.