Comparing Science and Religion in Frankenstein and Angels and Demons Es

Comparing learning and Religion in Frankenstein and Angels and Demons Science and religion have been at odds since back in Galileos day and maybe even before. The interlocking rages on even today with debates on cloning and stem electric cell research. These issues can be seen not only todays literary works but also in the works from the years past. ii great examples of the past and present are bloody shame Shelleys Frankenstein and Dan embr confesss Angels and Demons. Both deal with the issue of the roles that science and religion play. Mary Shelleys Frankenstein is a abuse story create verbally in 1831. It tells a tale of superordinate Frankensteins obsession with playing God and creating a man and the consequences that come with it. Not only does the book reflect on Victors breeding and but also on the goliaths life and how it deals with the situations at hand. Angels and Demons is a suspense thriller written in 2000. Robert Langdon has been asked to help solve a mu rder mystery because it is believed that a arcanum society that he has studied called the illuminati are behind it. The story takes a ton of twist and turns that involve a container of antimatter, the Catholic Church and a dead priests secret. Even though some(prenominal) of these books were written in different times and with totally different plots they still both bring to light the difference between science and religion that may never diminish. Victor Frankenstein is obsessed with his to attempt to create a human. He works on it constantly alienating friends and loved ones. His obsession is last rewarded with success he manages to create a monster. This is where Mary Shelley starts to bring in the lesson of playing God. When Victor looks at his creation, he sees what a horror he has created and how hideous a creature it is. No mortal could support the horror of that countenance. A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch (Shelley 44) . Shelley shows that man cannot create things without messing it up. This is would not be the last time that scientist went to far to attempt to create perfection. In 1991 Michael Stewart wrote a story called Prodigy in which a man messes with his daughters DNA to make her smarter. However, she becomes a child that has evil genes. (Nelkin 35). This is another counselling authors show that man is not capable of imitating God. Even though Victors description of... ...ck facts before committing them to complete believe. These two books show precise well what can happen when religion and science try to battle with each other. There are two types of extremes. Those that want to use advance(a) technology to expand into the realms of God and those that want to use their religious bearing to stop technology from advancing. Frankenstein is blinded by his obsession to create life and the Carmerlengo Carlo Ventresca went to the extreme to punish those that he thought had di sobeyed his religion even if it was his own father. Neither extreme is completely right and yet both sides track down to think that they have all the answers. It is a battle that has been going on for centuries and one that is not soon to be done. Works CitedBrown, Dan. Angels and Demons. Pocket leash Books. New York, 2000.Mazur, Allan. Science three, religion zero. Society. May June 1996 V 33 No.4. P 20-28.Nelkin, Dorothy. Genetics, God and sacred DNA. Society. May/June. 1196 V33 no.4 pg 29-43.Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. Bantam Classics. New York, 1818. Silver, Lee. Mary Shelleys Frankenstein. www.princeton.edu/wws320/films/Frankenstein/Frankenstein%20essay.htm