Reigion is not hostile to science. A Nun teaching in an all-girls Catholic high school secured funding for her students to produce DNA sequences in the study of osteoporosis. Check it out:
Originally posted by Wulebgr Reigion is not hostile to science. A Nun teaching in an all-girls Catholic high school secured funding for her students to produce DNA sequences in the study of osteoporosis. Check it out:
Religion has not been hostile to science in the past. There have been isolated (and famously misguided) instances of hostility to science. The fundementals of science were established in universities which were, at the time, religious foundations
Originally posted by aardvarkhome Religion has not been hostile to science in the past. There have been isolated (and famously misguided) instances of hostility to science. The fundementals of science were established in universities which were, at the time, religious foundations
Originally posted by aardvarkhome Religion has not been hostile to science in the past. There have been isolated (and famously misguided) instances of hostility to science. The fundementals of science were established in universities which were, at the time, religious foundations
So would you say religion, and lets be blunt and say Christianity, is hostile to science only when it directly conflicts with religious dogma? Because I believe that's the point of the original post.
Catholics don't seem to be hostile to science for the most part at all. They accept evolution, for instance. It's the American Protestants who are generally anti science.
Originally posted by wib So would you say religion, and lets be blunt and say Christianity, is hostile to science only when it directly conflicts with religious dogma? Because I believe that's the point of the original post.
is hostile to science only when it directly conflicts with religious dogma?
Well, sure, wib....but that covers a lot of territory.
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I almost forgot which forum I was in at the time... 😲