This is a brilliant example of anecdotal example, which has no statistical value. I’m sure your dad is a great person.
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Papergeist@lemmy.world 3 months agoIdk. My dad has always liked going to church. My family is catholic, I don’t really engage in any of it anymore. But my dad has always been a proponent of science. His opinion is that they can inform each other.
He believes in evolution. He knows vaccines work. And he certainly is not a trumper. He also likes to tell the story of how the big bang was initially hypothesized by a catholic priest.
Cosmicomical@lemmy.world 3 months ago
letsgo@lemm.ee 3 months ago
It’s a single example that disproves the hypothesis “science and religion must always oppose”. Only one example is needed, in the same way that the Riemann hypothesis only needs a single zero off the critical line to prove it’s false.
Cosmicomical@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Lol, no. I’m talking of a general trend of the religious establishment against innovation and understanding.
Cosmicomical@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That priest, Lemaitre, was opposed to mixing science and religion and said that there was no contraddiction between his theory and what the bible says about the origin of the universe. This is a 1984-level cognitive dissonance event imo, and shows that mixing something ever growing like science with something immutable like religious establishment is very difficult especially in one direction.