(November 18, 2018 at 9:20 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: Similarly, there is a compulsion to attempt to remove the inconvenient bits of science -as- science, when those things come into contradiction with religious beliefs, due to the esteem of scientific knowledge and the conceptual implausibility of beliefs which make claims to the contrary.
Right. We all try to make the world fit our categories but for some of us that is harder task than for others.