That priests advanced our knowledge in scientific fields is actually irrelevant. A person engaging in the scientific method is, or should be, approaching it with a view to following the evidence where it leads, regardless of their background. Georges Lemaître was a Catholic priest who originated the Big Bang theory, but that was a result of his scientific work and not from reading his bible. Isaac Newton was a practicing alchemist as well as a physicist, yet all his work in the field of alchemy combined is nothing compared to his discoveries in physics. Will Hay, one of the greatest comic actors this nation ever produced, was also a highly respected amateur astronomer who contributed many discoveries (astronomy being perhaps the sole scientific discipline in which the amateur still plays a major part). His observation of what became known as Hay's Spot on Saturn, for example, had nothing to do with comedy.
So please stow the red herring.
So please stow the red herring.
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.'
