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Can one be a religious believer and believe in scientific psychology at the same time?

Many religious ideas and psychological ideas are incompatible, and would contradict one another.  But modern psychology was introduced by Descartes and others while questioning the world and many phenomenons that were seen as 'supernatural' during a period of renaissance naturalism. Hence, is it then possible to be both religious and scientific?
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You can certainly be both. It is important to be aware that religion cannot be the answer 100% of the time, and those that use the religion as an excuse not to learn something, or as an excuse for something unexplainable happening when you could explain it using psychology are interpreting religion wrong. 

Your writing of Descartes is definitely a good point. There is often an argument in religion known as the "Gods Gap" where anything unexplainable is left to be impossible to find out, or is some unexplainable godly force. This can be seen with how ancient civilizations viewed solar eclipses, lightning and thunder, and crop growing. All were forces of gods until science helped them understand how those natural things happened.


It is perfectly okay to follow psychological study and learn more about ourselves, while still holding religious beliefs. If it helps explain it to other religious people around you, you can even view science as applied, calculatable truths of a religion.