Comments on: The scientist who leaves room for spirituality http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2009/03/17/the-scientist-who-leaves-room-for-spirituality/ Religion, faith and ethics Wed, 22 May 2013 15:00:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Physics Formulas http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2009/03/17/the-scientist-who-leaves-room-for-spirituality/comment-page-1/#comment-14640 Physics Formulas Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:54:41 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/?p=4794#comment-14640 At points in the history of the western world, science has been viewed as an opposition to the religious establishment, and people with new ideas censored. An example being Galileo, who was put under house arrest for reasserting previous claims that the earth went around the sun. Another German scientist, Nietzsche also commented upon similar affects upon thought and the scientific community in “Beyond good and Evil”. Science is observation, and being able to make accurate predictions based upon what is learned. A healthy curiosity and desire to learn exists no matter what a person believes, but in that frame of reference beliefs would evolve and change with time as more is learned. At points in the history of the western world, science has been viewed as an opposition to the religious establishment, and people with new ideas censored. An example being Galileo, who was put under house arrest for reasserting previous claims that the earth went around the sun.

Another German scientist, Nietzsche also commented upon similar affects upon thought and the scientific community in “Beyond good and Evil”.

Science is observation, and being able to make accurate predictions based upon what is learned. A healthy curiosity and desire to learn exists no matter what a person believes, but in that frame of reference beliefs would evolve and change with time as more is learned.

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