Religion can also be an impediment to scientific discovery if unchecked. In the famous story of the modern discovery of penicillin, had Alexander Fleming decided that his Staphylococcus samples were killed off by God and was satisfied with that as an answer, there would have been no need to investigate the true cause. The modern world would have been very different.
That's why even scientists with religious backgrounds have to leave all that baggage at the door and follow the evidence where it leads.
That's why even scientists with religious backgrounds have to leave all that baggage at the door and follow the evidence where it leads.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
