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AtheistCrusader

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14. Difficult to say, without restoring from backup and trying something else.

Thu Jul 11, 2019, 11:21 AM

Jul 2019

Possibly the world could have done better, overall, than the Jesuits without the religious suppression of scientific inquiry.
Possibly the Jesuits themselves, could have done better than they did, in a non-religious university type setting.

On the other hand, at the time, the concentration of resources into the hands of the Jesuits allowed them to research in ways that might not have been otherwise funded at the time. So it may have been a net benefit.

Not knowing the answers to these questions (and more that I have perhaps not thought of yet), I don't think we can assume the 'head start' the Jesuits got (and even the contributions they did make) disprove the study in any way.

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Study: Religious beliefs linked to poor understanding of physical world [View all] NeoGreen Jul 2019 OP

Absolutely!!! n/t RKP5637 Jul 2019 #1

Faith means suspension of disbelief insofar as you can't believe or replace belief in no_hypocrisy Jul 2019 #2

If you believe in God, you don't have to learn physics. MineralMan Jul 2019 #3

Jesuits might disagree zipplewrath Jul 2019 #4

Outliers... NeoGreen Jul 2019 #6

I get that this is a thing. But when you suppress science with one hand, and then allow a select few AtheistCrusader Jul 2019 #7

But it does put a kink in the supposed "link" zipplewrath Jul 2019 #9

Dysrationalia NeoGreen Jul 2019 #10

Did you read the paper?... NeoGreen Jul 2019 #11

Link zipplewrath Jul 2019 #13

Still not 'causation' as you erroneously discounted in your failed attempt of a Strawman... NeoGreen Jul 2019 #15

From a known thesaurus muriel_volestrangler Jul 2019 #20

Difficult to say, without restoring from backup and trying something else. AtheistCrusader Jul 2019 #14

Plus, the jesuits are often asscociated with creating... NeoGreen Jul 2019 #8

Jesuit studies Cartoonist Jul 2019 #12

Anecdotes might make the best waffles. Act_of_Reparation Jul 2019 #17

Luckily jesuits are well trained in maths Voltaire2 Jul 2019 #18

I'm sure there are some communist atheists somwhere we can blame for this. AtheistCrusader Jul 2019 #5

😅 Duppers Jul 2019 #16

You were doing fine until you disparaged Voltaire2 Jul 2019 #19