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To: Brumar89 who wrote (51301)	3/29/2014 3:31:20 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 69300

............. (a) it was sixteenth- and seventeenth-century thinkers, writing from religious, theological, and philosophical perspectives, who did more than anyone to advance the cause of religious toleration and free speech, which enabled science to flourish, as Perez Zagorin’s book, How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West, * convincingly demonstrates; (b) the Scientific Revolution was largely driven by scientists who were convinced that the cosmos was made according to a Divine plan, and who were driven by a bold ambition to know the mind of God and “think God’s thoughts after him”; (c) although the progress of science is imperiled by the suppression of free speech, it is hampered far more by a lack of curiosity about the world – i.e. a complacent human tendency to stop asking probing questions when we come up against some state of affairs that we are powerless to change (“That’s just the way it is; move on, folks”); (d) religion serves a useful purpose, insofar as it encourages scientists to “think out of the box” when asking why things are the way they are (after all, what could be more “out of the box” than a Transcendent Designer?); and (e) if it comes to that, secularism has its own orthodoxies, and it actively persecutes scientists who question those orthodoxies with far greater zeal than the Inquisition ever did. ............. http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/on-not-learning-the-lessons-of-history-what-professor-pz-myers-doesnt-get-about-the-progress-of-science-part-one/