Considering that science is simply a systematic way for carefully and thoroughly observing nature and using consistent logic to evaluate results I would not divorce it from the state.
Do you want to separate the state from being thorough? Do you want to separate the state from using careful observation? Do you want to separate the state from being systematic? Or do you want to separate the state from using consistent logic?
Do you want to separate the state from being thorough? Do you want to separate the state from using careful observation? Do you want to separate the state from being systematic? Or do you want to separate the state from using consistent logic?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
