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Science and Theism Doesn't Work out right?
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RE: Science and Theism Doesn't Work out right?
(October 13, 2024 at 6:59 am)Pat Mustard Wrote: The thing is, not one single one of those scientists made their religious advances because of their religion.  In fact Darwin, the scientist christians most love to hate, didn't become agnostic until long after he discovered his theory of evolution, he actually dithered on publishing it for twenty years over his personal religious beliefs and the societal backlash controlled by religion he feared to unleash.

The vast majority of religious scientists, when doing science, will openly leave their religion at the door.

I think it might be more accurate to say that when doing science they don't rely on religious dogma or scripture. But that doesn't mean that they stop being religious. As if they switch it off in the lab. 

If a person believes that mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe, then measuring and quantifying different aspects of the universe is not separate from that person's religion. 

Leonardo da Vinci, to give one example, thought that close observation of fluid dynamics told him about how God works in the world.

Anyway, the Talmud and the Heart Sutra, etc., don't address the same questions that science does.
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Science and Theism Doesn't Work out right? - by Hellomate1234 - October 11, 2024 at 12:01 pm
RE: Science and Theism Doesn't Work out right? - by Silver - October 11, 2024 at 12:02 pm
RE: Science and Theism Doesn't Work out right? - by Angrboda - October 11, 2024 at 6:21 pm
RE: Science and Theism Doesn't Work out right? - by brewer - October 11, 2024 at 8:41 pm
RE: Science and Theism Doesn't Work out right? - by Belacqua - October 13, 2024 at 8:11 am
RE: Science and Theism Doesn't Work out right? - by Ahriman - October 13, 2024 at 8:22 am
RE: Science and Theism Doesn't Work out right? - by Fireball - October 13, 2024 at 1:21 pm
RE: Science and Theism Doesn't Work out right? - by Ahriman - October 12, 2024 at 9:01 pm
RE: Science and Theism Doesn't Work out right? - by Silver - October 13, 2024 at 11:17 am

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