> “Science feels and acts like a kind of religion a lot of the time.” Minsky had heard that one before: “Everything is similar if you’re willing to look that far out of focus.
this breaks down when you remember that contemporary science emerged in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries out of the work of people like newton and kant who saw themselves as engaged in a (partially) theological pursuit.
> You’re not allowed to ask, ‘Who made God?’
this is actually a pretty active inquiry in theological circles, and one of the sources of difference between Christian sects. although us Christians tend to frame it more from a creationist perspective as "what sort of entity is God and what bearing would that have on the way we see God's creation and custodianship of the world". much like with science, faith does not preclude curiosity for the reigious.
this breaks down when you remember that contemporary science emerged in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries out of the work of people like newton and kant who saw themselves as engaged in a (partially) theological pursuit.
> You’re not allowed to ask, ‘Who made God?’
this is actually a pretty active inquiry in theological circles, and one of the sources of difference between Christian sects. although us Christians tend to frame it more from a creationist perspective as "what sort of entity is God and what bearing would that have on the way we see God's creation and custodianship of the world". much like with science, faith does not preclude curiosity for the reigious.