Combine Incompatible Ideas to Shift Perspective

Keats, author of Virtual words, explains how a thought experiment in which he [image error]attempts to genetically engineer God allowed him to create a situation in which science and religion become compatible. The experiment further opened up an exploration of where the two seemingly irreconcilable elements can be made to merge.

Science and religion both have very particular ideas about how the world works. Ideas that potentially are not totally compatible, but that are overlapping. Science claims t...