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Religions only tolerate progress when it does not interfere with their power. That why religions are cool with math. Now if you go to physics and biology, oh w
by whatever1 4y ago
Religions only tolerate progress when it does not interfere with their power. That why religions are cool with math.
Now if you go to physics and biology, oh well depending on the age you were born there is some risk of losing your head.
- erenyeager 4y agothis is a quite Eurocentric take. In the Islamic world, the distinction was not initially science vs religion but the encroachment of philosophical rationalism on religious interpretation which was famously articulated by the Islamic scholar Al-Ghazali in his refutation of the Falasifa (called philosophers of that time but they differ from modern philosophers we mean today).