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Originally Posted by awareness
Since Aristotle (4th c. BCE) otherworldliness was eliminated as empirically unprovable, so eliminated from scientific study and research.
That's not to say that since scientists haven't been believers. They couldn't help it. The Roman Catholic church was the government for millennia. So some scientists, like Giordano Bruno, were burn at the stake for claiming the earth wasn't the center of the universe. The microscope prove him right, and the church wrong.
So faith in God, in the past, has greatly limited the understanding of the universe ... sorry to say.
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ByHisMercy, who started this thread, I would make the opposite conclusion -- faith in God has never limited our understanding of the universe. In fact, the greatest hoax ever inflicted on mankind is that there is no God and this universe evolved on its own.
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awareness started to believe, contrary to all evidence, that the Popes in Rome had faith in God because they called themselves the church. I would say "prove it," since all they have done is persecute the real believers for more than a millennia. That's not to say that some Catholics are not real believers, but that I never saw any signs of faith emanating from the Vatican.