Frederick Bott
1 min readJul 5, 2022

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Claiming authoritatively that religion does not, and can't align with science is a kind of faith in itself, which, if it happens to be incorrect, is an existential mistake.
A (perhaps intentional?) side effect of making up a rule like this is that if something we work out scientifically happens to align with religion, rather than just noting it with added satisfaction and moving on, we return to questioning the science, because "It just can't align with religion".
So for example, if we see some scientific Systems Analysis of the System of Energy which comes to some general conclusions including "Energy from above is good, energy from below is bad, no exceptions", and highlights a strong link between the business of profit making, promises to pay, debt, and interest, and bad use of energy, the scientist believing science must not align with religion will disagree vigorously with the scientific systems analysis, rather than just accepting, maybe there is something in this god stuff after all.
In any case none of it seems much relevant to Roe vs Wade.

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Frederick Bott
Frederick Bott

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