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To: ifinnegan

Nope. It doesn’t have bearing on it either. Really there are many religious scientists. They don’t have a problem. The only time there’s any bearing comes from, as I already said, dumb religious people with weak faith. Those are the people who feel threatened when science says that the current human interpretation of the Bible is wrong. You know, the clowns who put Galileo in jail because Copernicus’ math sucked. They decided that their weak faith was threatened by the idea that the universe didn’t revolve around the earth. Even though that was just a human interpretation of the Bible which is really quite vague about orbital mechanics. Galileo was quite religious and thought his observations and math showed how awesome God was, putting all these things in self perpetuating orbits and all.

So no. Science has no bearing on religion either.


82 posted on 12/15/2023 4:54:50 PM PST by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: discostu

Science has always had interest in religious precepts, rightly or wrongly, at broad philosophical levels.

Western science used concepts of fixed laws created by God to explore nature.

It worked in informing theories and hypotheses.


84 posted on 12/15/2023 5:01:22 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: discostu

“ You know, the clowns who put Galileo in jail because Copernicus’ math sucked.”

What does bureaucrats clamping down on someone unfairly have to do with science?

“ They decided that their weak faith was threatened by the idea that the universe didn’t revolve around the earth. ”

Yes. They were mistaken and hubristic. And despotic.

The scientists determined the actual fact by positing laws of nature exist. The idea that laws of nature exist did not arise ex nihilo - out of nothing or in a vacuum.


89 posted on 12/15/2023 6:34:49 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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