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Handzo: Well, I think it's important to differentiate and to define spirituality and religion. Religion has to do with an organized set of beliefs. So I'm a Lutheran; I adhere to a set of beliefs that has been defined as Lutheran, and I identify with a community that's Lutheran...
...started out as an undergraduate as a scientist and only went to religion later, and there are those people who said to me that I couldn't be ordained because I had been a scientist, and that polluted my thinking...
Science and religion have different ways of thinking about reality that are both helpful, and both need to be accounted for. And I think in terms of health, the issue is how do we account for--in the health-care system and in the practice of health--the process of faith? And how does that integrate into how medicine gets practiced or how chaplaincy gets practiced or psychology gets practiced...
Sloan: I frankly think there is nothing that science can do that can contribute to religion, and I think it's a fatal flaw to think that you can use the methods of science to learn something meaningful about religion...
...tools of science be used to teach us about the subjective experience of religion--as Dr. Newberg is describing, with brain scans and the like--and teach us something about how we process...