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SUBSTANTIVE RELATIVISM: Relativism has different domains such as domains in religions, aesthetics, science, and knowledge. Based on the domains,when we think certain judgements in certain domains systematically differ and they differ with respect to background assumptions or cultures, and there's no way of ranking in neutral way.This is known as substantive relativism. For analogy, one might think science is knowledge while the other might say science has no knowledge. This means that everything is in the eyes of beholder. Just because someone deny one's own ideas doesn't meant he is more correct than others and vice versa. Another notable example was the upheavel of Edingburgh in the  18th century. The bourgeoisie or the middlemen thought that it is their duty to carry out labourers works because it is meant by God. They support the coherence of phrenology. Phrenologists believe that everyone has different faculties in brain. This brain influences our skulls. Determina...

T The three models about the relationship between religion and science are: I) Science and religion conflict in principle: This sometimes called the warfare model of the relationship between science and religion because only one or the other can survive.Religion beliefs drawn from purported divine revelations, held entirely on the basis of authority whereas science beliefs justified by sense experience and the application of scientific method.For example, ( a) the story about Galileo and the Church:Galileo claims Sun is the centre of the universe while the Church claims that the Earth is the centre of the universe in which all planets revolve around the Earth. (b) The steady state theory and the religions(Christians, Muslims and Jews):Steady state theory says the universe is eternal and it has no beginning while the religions says the universe has its beginning. 2)Science and religion cannot conflict in principle:Science interrogates natural world, the world of natural objects ...