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One acts like a 'Know it all' and the other 'wants to learn it all' (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I don’t know enough about Islam to claim that this applies, but it certainly applied to Christianity up until the enlightenment: there was no point in doing experiments to find out more about the world, the answer was already in the Bible. If you couldn’t see it yet, you needed to study the Bible more.

This is just plain wrong.

Have a look at this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christians_in_science_and_technology

What often happened was that rich people's sons became priests, because it was a respected and not very time intensive endeavor. This would give them ample free time to engage with the sciences as much as they wanted.