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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Geoffrey Lloyd’s Science in Ancient Civilizations states there have been exactly seven civilizations that pursued objective, scientific knowledge in human history.  One of those civilizations, Christian Europe, was able to create the sustainable modern science, including data and methods, that contemporary scientists use today.

The world’s successful university systems came from the monastic model first developed by European Benedictine monks in the 4th century.

Roger Bacon was a 13th-century English priest, philosopher, scientist, logician and Franciscan friar who emphasized the study of nature through empirical observation.

Without the Catholic Church, science would have peeked its scrawny head out of some hole, and then scampered back into it like it did the previous six times in the ancient world. -United Methodist scientist[/quote]

That's all well and good, but if you believe Jesus was born of a virgin and ascended bodily into heaven and walked on water, and there is a hereafter that you can only get into by believing in Jesus -- then you can't possibly accept the scientific method and you have majorly compartmentalized![/quote]

One way to distinguish between science and religion is that science concerns the natural world, whereas religion concerns the supernatural world and its relationship to the natural. No compartments.[/quote]

What is this "supernatural world" you speak of?  Once you can demonstrate that exists, then we can address the odd "its relationship to the natural" thing.[/quote]

If you don’t personally believe in a supernatural world, that’s ok. But not everyone thinks like you. [/quote]

I asked what it is.  I didn't ask you to think like me.[/quote]

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