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The interconnection of “the divine” and science was central to the scientific revolution — Kepler, Newton, Galileo, etc. There became an understanding that one can learn about the divine through empirical methods, not just doctrine or contemplation.

Though interesting that each of the above scientists all explicitly claimed to be Pythagorean… where are the Pythagoreans of today?

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> The interconnection of “the divine” and science was central to the scientific revolution

Agreed. Even today, for many people there is no fatal tension between science and religion (often in large part because they serve to answer different questions).

My personal rule of thumb is that if I see an apparent contradiction between religion and science, it just means I have an incorrect/incomplete understanding of some area of religion or science (or both).

I would like to view every scientist or academic who publishes, even a Master's Thesis, but most especially a PhD:

https://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/

is a successor of the Pythagoreans.

I see the pursuit of the divine as searching for small repeatable surprises. The people doing the discovery observed some small physical world and surprised an set about divining the origin and documenting simple repeatability.

The book A Beautiful Question explores this topic quite well.

Gene Ray? :-)

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