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Thusly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Catholic_clergy_scientists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Catholic_clergy_scient... Further: https://en.wi
by willcipriano 5y ago
Thusly: 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.