(October 13, 2024 at 8:22 am)Ahriman Wrote:(October 13, 2024 at 8:11 am)Belacqua Wrote: 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.
I'm starting to think all those really old scientists weren't all that bright.
This would require you to have a negative IQ score.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.