The importance of religion for two paradigms: science and natural philosophy Since the beginning of the intellectual development of humanity, the question of whether it exists or not God was a question that still remains. However, its effects on our thinking have been shaped by a number of people, thinkers, priests, scientists and so on. If we were to divide that continuum into two parts, they would be before and after enlightenment. That is to say the times of natural philosophy and times of science starting from the term produced after the mid-eighteenth century. Before the Enlightenment, when thinking about medieval Europe, religion was the central core of natural philosophy. However, after that time religion was isolated from “science” in a way that may have influenced processes but had no conditions that could alter the methodology of thought and contemplation. First of all, to understand that situation, what natural philosophy must be known. Natural philosophy is the philosophical way of thinking about how nature works. That main philosophical current founded in ancient Greece. They observed nature and tried to know how all this could happen around them, basically they wanted to be aware of their environment. But when it comes to how natural philosophy came into contact with religion. Muslim thinkers used that natural philosophy to promote Islamic beliefs and even to justify the existence of God himself. Back then, the Christian church had done the same thing. In addition to the spread of natural philosophy, the way in which natural philosophers interpreted the environment and nature is also important. Thus it was that, after the observations of the phenomenon... half of the paper... in the nineteenth century. That change was also reflected in the products of the philosophers who lived in that era. Works Cited Dennis Des Chene, Physiologia: Natural Philosophy in Late Aristotelian and Cartesian Thought (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996), 2. Jon H. Roberts and James Turner, The Sacred and the Secular University, (Princeton University press, 2000) .29Josh A. Reeves (2008) The Field of Science and Religion as Natural Philosophy, Theology and Science, 6:4, 403-419David Hume, An inquiring Concerning Human understanding, ed. Charles W. Hendel (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1955) Hyland P, Gomez O, Greensides F, The Enlightenment a Sourcebook and Reader, Rootledge, 2003, p. 37-40, 71-75The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (1729) Newton's Principles of Natural Philosophy, Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1968