Editing Fact–value distinction (section)

==Religion and science==
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{{anchor|Weber}}<!--For [[Post-truth]] page, from where this paragraph is pasted from.-->In his essay ''[[Science as a Vocation]]'' (1917) [[Max Weber]] draws a distinction between facts and values. He argues that facts can be determined through the methods of a value-free, objective social science, while values are derived through culture and religion, the truth of which cannot be known through science. He writes, "it is one thing to state facts, to determine mathematical or logical relations or the internal structure of cultural values, while it is another thing to answer questions of the value of culture and its individual contents and the question of how one should act in the cultural community and in political associations. These are quite heterogeneous problems."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Weber, Max |url=https://archive.org/details/frommaxweber00maxw |title=From Max Weber : essays in sociology |date=1958 |publisher=Oxford University Press |others=Gerth, Hans, 1908–1979; Mills, C. Wright (Charles Wright), 1916–1962 |isbn=0195004620 |location=New York |pages=[https://archive.org/details/frommaxweber00maxw/page/146 146] |oclc=5654107 |url-access=registration}}</ref> In his 1919 essay ''[[Politics as a Vocation]]'', he argues that facts, like actions, do not in themselves contain any intrinsic meaning or power: "any ethic in the world could establish substantially ''identical'' commandments applicable to all relationships."<ref>Weber 1958, p. 357.</ref>

According to [[Martin Luther King Jr.]], "Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Knapp |first=Alex |title=Martin Luther King, Jr. On Science And Religion |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2014/01/20/martin-luther-king-jr-on-science-and-religion/ |access-date=2023-01-16 |website=Forbes |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-08-28 |title=Science, Religion, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |url=https://blog.ucsusa.org/michael-halpern/science-religion-and-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-222/ |access-date=2023-01-16 |website=The Equation |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Dr. Martin Luther King's Impact on the Field of Science {{!}} Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion |url=https://www.edi.nih.gov/blog/communities/dr-martin-luther-king%E2%80%99s-impact-field-science |access-date=2023-01-16 |website=www.edi.nih.gov}}</ref> He stated that science keeps religion from "crippling [[irrationalism]] and paralyzing [[obscurantism]]" whereas Religion prevents science from "falling into ... obsolete [[materialism]] and [[moral nihilism]]."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2012-01-16 |title=The Scientific Teachings Of Dr. Martin Luther King |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/martin-luther-king-science_n_1208349 |access-date=2023-01-16 |website=HuffPost |language=en}}</ref>

[[Albert Einstein]] remarked that {{blockquote|the realms of religion and science in themselves are clearly marked off from each other, nevertheless there exist between the two strong reciprocal relationships and dependencies. Though religion may be that which determines the goal, it has, nevertheless, learned from science, in the broadest sense, what means will contribute to the attainment of the goals it has set up. But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs from the sphere of religion. To this there also belongs the faith in the possibility that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that is, comprehensible to reason. I cannot conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith. The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.<ref>"Science, Philosophy and Religion, A Symposium", published by the Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion in Their Relation to the Democratic Way of Life, Inc., New York (1941); later published in ''Out of My Later Years'' (1950)</ref>}}