When it comes to programming, pretty much everything boils down to two key elements:

  - Some kind of data/information, in some (digital) form of one structure or another.
  - Methods, processes and operations that transform, transport and do other things to that data.

For example, in OOP, those two elements are generally combined together in organisational units ("objects"); on the other hand, in functional programming they are strictly separated.

Each of those paradigms - and many others - are just tools in our arsenal to achieve our goals, and neither is intrinsically better than the other. Depending on the context and environment that we are operating within, each has its advantages and disadvantages; some are better suited than others in certain cases.