(March 7, 2018 at 10:20 pm)Alexmahone Wrote: Isaac Newton, who practically invented physics and calculus, is easily one of the most intelligent people to have ever lived. But he was also a theologian and spent decades studying the bible, theology and church history. Why didn't he use his rationality to denounce Christianity and become an atheist? He lived before Darwin; is this sufficient to excuse his belief in the Christian god?
It does not matter.
You can find discoveries by humans worldwide in our species history.
If holding a deity belief or religion constituted scientific method then the correct position would be adapted by ethical scientists.
It is certainly true that scientists can and do hold religious beliefs. But that does not make the tool itself bias pointing to one god or one religion.
The ancient Greeks coined the word "atom" but does that mean the global scientific community claims Athena agrees she existed?
Ancient Muslims developed algebra but yet it still cannot be used to prove the existence of Allah.
If anyone wants to know where our species ability to learn and create comes from, Youtube is full of videos of chimps and dogs and octopi figuring things out.
