"The Catholic church is one of the most scientific religions out there."
There's only 1 problem: science and religion mix like oil and water... they don't. You either believe something or prove something. You cannot 'prove' the existence of any godlike entity and you cannot 'believe' in gravity. A god exists in your mind, gravity is a fact.
And the fact that the catholic church needs science is a fact, but that same church has more tha once stood against scientific progress. Rememeber Copernicus and Galilei. Their 'heretical' ideas that the earth was not the center of the universe by the catholic chuch had nothing to do with science, but was all about keeping it's power over their followers.
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"The Catholic church is one of the most scientific religions out there." There's only 1 problem: science and religion mix like oil and water... they don't. You either believe something or prove something. You cannot 'prove' the existence of any godlike entity and you cannot 'believe' in gravity. A god exists in your mind, gravity is a fact. And the fact that the catholic church needs science is a fact, but that same church has more tha once stood against scientific progress. Rememeber Copernicus and Galilei. Their 'heretical' ideas that the earth was not the center of the universe by the catholic chuch had nothing to do with science, but was all about keeping it's power over their followers.