Redefining the Conflict between Religion and Science in Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons
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The conflict between science and religion has been focus point in most of the
literary writing in contemporary times. Dan Brown’s Angels and Demonsrevolve
around the same issues of religion and science. It tries to bring the conflict into the
new level.It does not totally reject the conflict that exists between religion and
science rather it tries to show the conflict as a part of historical process. In every
historical process there is the exercise of power by those who hold the power in the
society and while exercising power there is certainly some conflict which always pave
the way for the new possibility. So the conflict between religion and science is
nothing more than the demand of new possibility where science can purify religion
from conservativeness and religion can purify science from its false absoluteness. And
Brown presenting the characters like Leonardo Vetra, who being the scientist tries to
prove the Biblical account of the universe and Late Pope, who being a pope of
Vatican city admires the progress of the science and birth of a test tube baby tries to
indicate towards the same possibility.