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>I don't see what makes you think that the employment of the Scientific Method is incompatible with faith in authority

Did you know that the thing that ended up getting Galileo busted was putting the pope's arguments into the mouth of a fictional retard character?

Catholic apologists say that this is evidence that the church didn't actually hate science, only political opposition. Fair enough. But then you look at all the other scientists persecuted by the church and you see that many of them were persecuted for some sort of heresy, occultism, atheism etc.

What follows from this is that brilliant people who are more likely to defy established scientific truths will also defy authority. Either you allow satirizing the pope or you don't get heliocentrism - they both come from the same source.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/23/kolmogorov-complicity-and-the-parable-of-lightning/

>The Church didn’t lift a finger against science. It just accidentally created a honeytrap that attracted and destroyed scientifically curious people. And any insistence on a false idea, no matter how harmless and well-intentioned, risks doing the same.