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> Priests believe in science, but the people who put those signs on their lawns tend not to agree. I don't see how you can claim with a straight face that prie
by Tepix 5y ago
> Priests believe in science, but the people who put those signs on their lawns tend not to agree.
I don't see how you can claim with a straight face that priests believe in science.
Religion at its core is asking for belief without proof. Science is the opposite.
- Kye 5y agoThe ways the human brain can find to bridge two things that seem contradictory to someone outside that experience are numerous. It can be as easy as simply not applying scientific processes to something inherently unscientific. Sometimes there's a lot of unchecked confirmation bias in finding proof of faith.
- willcipriano 5y agoThusly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Catholic_clergy_scientists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Catholic_clergy_scient... Further: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lay_Catholic_scientists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lay_Catholic_scientist... You are robbing yourself if you don't speak to priests you encounter. They tend to be very well read people, with an interesting perspective on the world if you can be tolerant enough of them.
- trasz 5y agoAnything past 1950? Because the religion wasn’t _always_ hostile to science.
- mbfg 5y agoBelieving things without evidence is "hostile" to science.
- trasz 5y agoReally? Is children's belief in Santa Claus hostile to science? What I've meant above is hostility in the literal sense. As in, trying to oppose science with some religious fantasies, like with Intelligent Design, or pretty much anything Catholicism says about human sexuality.
- mbfg 5y ago"Science" is a process. That of collecting observations, building theories and testing those theories, rinse repeat. So yes a belief in Santa is 'hostile' to science, because it is completely at odds with that process.
- etempleton 5y agoMost priests are incredibly educated. There is a reason a lot of colleges and universities were founded by religious orders. There are Catholic priests who are well regarded and published scientists and mathematicians.
- Tepix 5y agoBeing educated doesn't mean that they believe in science, does it?
- trasz 5y agoIt might depend on country. In Poland, for example, the opposite is true: priests are essentially modern political officers, with very poor understanding of pretty much anything. Polish catholic universities are generally mediocre, except for stuff that can’t be corrupted by religion, eg food technology.
- mbfg 5y agoScience is accepting things based on evidence. Faith is believing things without evidence. If you have evidence for a thing, you don't say, "i believe it on faith".