SCIENCE AND RELIGION: CONVERGENCES AND DIVERGENCES THROUGH THE LENS OF AI–RELATED NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS

The song (Give Me That) Old–Time Religion is the guide that leads us through the texture of history — in the “Scopes Monkey Trial” — in which a high school teacher, was accused of violating the Butler Act of Tennessee, which had made it illegal to teach darwinism and human evolution in any state–funded school. This narrative device will allow us to become aware of how science and religion can be part of the same divisive or unifying discourse. It is properly the separation/convergence between science and religion — in the discourse about new religious movements and Artificial Intelligence (AI) — that shows how these movements can be narrative containers of reality in which science and religion seem to contaminate each other, and to generate the “religious–like” sense.