Science and art should be incorporated together, not as one single concept, but as two parts that work off each other. Steven Pinker, writer of “Science Is Not Your Enemy”, shares this common belief with much of the world. He says, “This humanism, which is inextricable from a scientific understanding of the world, is becoming the de facto morality of modern democracies, international organizations, and liberalizing religions, and its unfulfilled promises define the moral imperatives we face today (Pinker)”. The connection between the arts and science are rather unclear, and almost absent in almost all cases in our world, although they could greatly use each other in order to boost themselves into another level of thinking and reasoning. Jonah Lehrer, the writer of “The Future of Science… Is Art?”, also believes in the concept ever growing in popularity. Lehrer says, “But before we can unravel these mysteries, our sciences must get past their present limitations. How can we make this happen? My answer is simple: Science needs the arts. We need to find a place for the artist within the experimental process, to rediscover what Bohr observed when he looked at those cubist paintings (Lehrer)”. Lehrer believes that in order for science to further itself, art needs to be incorporated within it. Both of these writers believe that art needs to be in the conversation of scientific thinking. Art will help our world understand the concepts of science that are difficult to understand, as it can help us imagine it.

In a world where science seems to overwhelm the thoughts of religion, I believe that both should be connected as one, although the world believes otherwise. Steven Pinker, in his writing “Science is Not Your Enemy”, believes in this notion. He says, “Scientific ideas and discoveries about living nature and man, perfectly welcome and harmless in themselves, are being enlisted to do battle against our traditional religious and moral teaching, and even our self-understanding as creatures with freedom and dignity (Pinker)”. His beliefs, although not common with the rest of world, state that religion and science should be used together, as art should be, in order to further our knowledge even more than it already is. From my own experience and education, religion and science are kept separate from each other because that is how it has been taught for years and years now. According to modern education, these two views of the world should be kept apart, but I believe that they should be merge together in some way, in order to gain the most amount of knowledge possible. I agree with Pinker’s ideas on this topic, as religion and science are views that are very important to a lot of people in the world.