(June 9, 2014 at 5:32 pm)Esquilax Wrote:(June 9, 2014 at 5:14 pm)mickiel Wrote: No, that is not a difference; religion has helped humanity progress.
Peer review is the difference. A respect for factual things, is the difference. Oh, and the very important fact that science needs to provide results that eventually become applicable to real life, and cant just be fobbed off with "you'll be rewarded when you die," is the difference.
Those things are important. Science is results based, the greatest of its discoveries changed the world in measurable, demonstrable ways. For all its claims to divine knowledge, the church has never produced a single discovery or invention.
Science is fact based too, and has the peer review process to keep itself honest. If you look at how the church works, you see just how little care they have for facts; at one point the catholics had this concept of limbo, which they don't anymore, so evidently that was just made up. They literally attached a whole other cosmic realm to their ideology, and then pruned it off, without ever gaining any new information, because the books they're working from never change. That's emblematic of the problem religion has, that science doesn't, where they all just... make things up, based on nothing more than convenience, and then discard them on the same basis. It's so telling.
Now, you can shrug these off as not important, but if that's all you're going to do, without saying why, then... meh.
The church produced 17 founding fathers of 17 different branches of new sciences. I have listed them.
And hey, these 17 famous companies;
http://www.businessinsider.com/17-big-co...012-1?op=1
