There are 46 "confessional schools" i Germany, who again campaign for biblical interpretations of scientific data being put on equal status with scientific methodology. And while by lip-confessions they want to avoid being seen as creationists (who have a very bad reputation over here), they claim that interpreting evolution on the basis of a 7 day creation cycle should be put en par with science.
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That'S what it always is about, in all such cases. Compromising science by having delusion and fiction being raised in status - to be seen as of equal validity than science. Once that is achieved, one can go for the next target: science being toned down and being understood to be allowed only where it supports religious claims, in other words: science becoming a propaganda tool for religion, no tool for seeking the truth as objectively and independently as possible.
This is the role of sciences in Islamic countries, since over a thousand years. Once superior in algebra, physics, optics, medicine, the great stagnation caused by Muhammad led to this advantage and leading role being equalised by developing Europe, and then surpassed, and with the West over the centuries becoming incredibly successful and dominating the world, the Islamic world fatalistically froze in time, with sciences then only allowed where they were abstract and did not touch upon themes where the Quran claimed interpreting and deciding dominance (maths for example were still allowed, for example), or being forced to not ask questions of the like "Why is this, how does it function?", but only questions of the type: "Why is the Quran right in its explanation of it?" Obviously, there is a very huge difference in both attitudes displayed in these ways of asking questions. The big wake-up call then was Napoleon landing in Egypt, and the shivering Muslim world realising that it was not the cultural heavyweight and was even impotent to prevent those foreigners walking in their lands and doing what they want, while being hopelessly superior in technical and scientific possibilities. The reaction of the religious? The French landing became known to them as "the great offense to Islam".
Yeah, if somebody does better than you do and knows more and trains better and can do more things than you can and has undergone an evolution that outclasses yours, then it is not your best bet to try to improve and learn and become better yourself, no: you claim that the superiority of the other is offending you! :yeah:
Sounds familiar when considering statements from Catholic spokesman and popes. The great challenge, the great offense of science that it has put into the world by questioning God. Satan working in sciences to make people move away from the church for rational scientific reasons.
Yeah, sure. Science has nothing better to do than that.
In fact there were times it indeed had better things to do. For example fleeing or avoiding being burned and tortured by the church.
