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I think that Science evolved out of religion, or rather that they had a common ancestry and diverged at various junctures (with folks like Pythagoras, Galileo and Einstein as punctuation marks). They are now completely different species diverging ever farther apart and no reasonable person can possibly doubt the line of ascent being taken by homo sapiens sapiens. But the claim that the Judaeo Christian tradition birthed all of science is as wrong as the claim that humans are descended from monkeys rather than being genetic second cousins.
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Dean
Egnor Attributes Scientific Progress to Religion
OK, so I’m a little late to this one. But I still think I have something to add. Well I would. PZ wrote a piece extolling the virtues of science over religion in curing diseases such as cancer, and bemoaning the shortage of funds to support research. (And also bemoaning the money wasted on usele...
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