Religion and Science

In Life of Pi, Pi grows up surrounded by many different religions in which he cannot depict as one for himself. He believes in Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism. These religions all vary in different beliefs and views which causes people to tell Pi that he cannot believe in them all. However, Pi thinks that he can believe in all these religions and still love just one god. Religion is a very important part of Pi's life, which is displayed throughout the novel even though we never experience gods presence. Even without his presence its believable that god was with him through all of his adventures or he would not have survived. In my opinion I respect the fact that Pi feels that all of these religions are important and can all be celebrated as one, however I don't know if religions that are that different can really be combined. It made me really think throughout the book if this is really possible, and if there is anyone like Pi with different religious beliefs.

In our society today we are surrounded by the conflict of religion vs science. There's the constant argument of evolution vs. things such as adam and eve or other religious views of how the earth came about. In Pi's world however, science and religion are seperate ideas and never put together to form new beliefs. In our minds, science seemed to play a larger role throughout the book in order for him to survive.