A Different Approach to the Relationship Between Science and Religion in the Theory of Secularization

There are two aims of this article. the first aim is to indicate that it is normal for a religious man to believe in science or that a scientist can be religious since there is no zero-sum relationship between science and religion for secularization theory. the second aim is to explain how the scientific advances accelerate the secularization process in the absence of zero-sum relationship. the article concludes that the impact of scientific developments on secularization process have two pillars: the increase of rational consciousness by which human beings start to explain the natural phenomena in a rational cause-and-effect relationship, and the spread of technology which has decreased the number of the areas and the issues previously needed religion.