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WHEN SCIENCE MEETS RELIGION
___ (1) Science is increasingly indispensable in ___ (2) today’s society, particularly in ___ (3) light 
of the many daunting challenges that ___ (4) humanity now faces, ranging from ___ (5) global cli-
mate change to ___ (6) bioethics. ___ (7). Technological advances are unrecognizably changing 
___ (8) human culture. ___ (9) question is now whether ___ (10) humanity, and ___ (11) morals, is 
lying forgotten on the road of discovery.
___ (12) Many scientists, whilst brilliant in their field, are often guilty of ignoring the wider im-
plications of their research, and become fixated on ___ (12) result. They become caught up in their 
elegant theories, and innovative experiments, without asking whether they should be pursuing 
___ (13) line of research.
___ (14) Ethical questions are ___ (15) integral part of ___ (16) scientific process, and should 
always be built into ___ (16) steps of ___ (17) scientific research process. It has always faced ques-
tions about ___ (18) ethics and ___ (18) morality during ___ (19) experimental design process, and 
also in determining how ___ (20) results are used.
To this day, Oppenheimer regrets ___ (21) results of his nuclear research, but it cannot be un-
done. ___ (22) exposure of servicemen to ___ (23) unknown health effects of ___ (24) radiation 
was extremely immoral, but was dwarfed by ___ (25) tragedies at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, unnec-

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essary crimes against ___ (26) humanity. ___ (27) sole reason for this attack was so that ___ (28) US 
military could study ___ (29) effects of radiation sickness over ___ (30) period of time. 
In ___ (31) same way that philosophy underlies ___ (32) basic reasoning process governing the 
structure and validity of ___ (33) scientific research, religion should play a greater part in ___ (33) 
ethics. ___ (34) Ethical concerns are not solely ___ (35) province of ___ (36) religion, and those 
with or without ___ (37) faith have ___ (38) right to express their views upon ___ (39) subject, as 
long as they are reasoned, and well thought out. 
___ (40) Esteemed scientists stating that ‘people who believe in ___ (41) God are idiots’ are as 
intolerant as ___ (42) religious leaders ranting that those who do not subscribe to their restricted 
view of ___ (43) world are evil, and deserve ___ (44) death and ___ (45) eternal damnation. 
For too long, there has been little overlap between the two fields, and this contributes to ___ 
(46) extremism. ___ (47) path surely lies somewhere in ___ (48) middle, where ___ (49) religious 
bodies are able to question ___ (50) ethics, without being shouted down, and ___ (51) scientists 
are allowed to establish their theories without attacks from those who believe in the literal truth 
of ancient texts.
Ex. 38. Use the verbs in parentheses in the correct tense and voice form. 
Discuss the relevance of the issues raised in this extract for Russia and 
the region you specialize in.
We (to witness)
1
an alarming resurgence of a religious intolerance we thought the U.S. and 
Europe (to outgrow)
2
. Not since the anti-Catholic movement of the late 19th century the U.S. (to