There are a lot of great Jesuit scientists but Jesuit universities are deeply infiltrated by social justice. It's incredibly frustrating.
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That particular order is a real mixed bag.
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Certainly full of fruits and nuts, that much is for certain.
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It does not please me to admit that you're right about that...
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The modern scientific method had its origins in the church. It may be such that it's only ever able to operate outside of the church for a limited time, before conditions force it to return there.
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The base safeguard against the impulse to cheat in science as we're seeing in much non-western science is the pious desire to understand God through studying his creation. Without Christianity, science as we know it would not exist.
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It's not surprising as western society and academia in particular grows more secular, reproducibility of papers is currently tanking.
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Breaking news! New support for integralism from... *Checks notes* People who believe in science.
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*looks up integralism* Oh, so that's what it's called!
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Natural philosophy and illuminated texts from a scriptorium > pozzed science-falsely-so-called.
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Not sure whether I would count on the catholic church or not, it's open to debate as to whether this could come from any of the other organized faiths. It seems, at least to me, that catholicism has lost it's way as a preserver of western civilization.
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Sounds like we need a doomsday cult... wait, I think that's what the RWDS meme is.
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At the moment it’s more like the monastery where Kung Fu grew up
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