Is it really anti-scientific if they can leave it at the door?
Yes, because the belief doesn’t disappear when they suspend it to do their jobs. They can surely contribute in theory, but in practice, many have only compartmentalized to the extent of their ability, and yet still go home and do all these things that contradict science head-on. They’re very well aware of that and simply don’t care. Sometimes it stains their work, and that’s quite unscientific, because compartmentalizing can only get you so far when you have a deep-seated belief and are only performing.
It’s also a bit different because it’s not a Newton level of genius in that case, with fundamental contributions helping to seed a field, but educated people who nevertheless promote bunk like anti-GMO stances, and woo like chiropractic, who get their papers published with all kinds of unscientific ideas. They’re performing the science on paper but not in spirit, and many of them do contribute productively, but let’s face it, unscientific beliefs leave their stink and stain.
Many believers find deep truth in sacred texts
It doesn’t matter what people get out of a religious text as a story because that’s hardly a universal truth when it’s a subjective experience, and it’s a bit orthogonal to what we’re talking about.
Regardless, do you really think Islam would support something so contradictory to its central thesis, like abiogenesis? Of course not, they’d try to link it back to Allah in some shape or form. I’ve seen it happen. It doesn’t matter what Islam says when religion and science are fundamentally irreconcilable.
Yes, because the belief doesn’t disappear when they suspend it to do their jobs. They can surely contribute in theory, but in practice, many have only compartmentalized to the extent of their ability, and yet still go home and do all these things that contradict science head-on. They’re very well aware of that and simply don’t care. Sometimes it stains their work, and that’s quite unscientific, because compartmentalizing can only get you so far when you have a deep-seated belief and are only performing.
It’s also a bit different because it’s not a Newton level of genius in that case, with fundamental contributions helping to seed a field, but educated people who nevertheless promote bunk like anti-GMO stances, and woo like chiropractic, who get their papers published with all kinds of unscientific ideas. They’re performing the science on paper but not in spirit, and many of them do contribute productively, but let’s face it, unscientific beliefs leave their stink and stain.
It doesn’t matter what people get out of a religious text as a story because that’s hardly a universal truth when it’s a subjective experience, and it’s a bit orthogonal to what we’re talking about.
Regardless, do you really think Islam would support something so contradictory to its central thesis, like abiogenesis? Of course not, they’d try to link it back to Allah in some shape or form. I’ve seen it happen. It doesn’t matter what Islam says when religion and science are fundamentally irreconcilable.