Talk:Secular Science

"Until the end of the Middle Ages there was no distinction between theology and science. Knowledge was deduced from self-evident principles received from God so science and theology were essentially the same thing"

There is another way of phrasing that...

"Until the end of the Middle Ages, science was constrained by theology. Any discoveries that were contrary to priestly interpretations of scripture were suppressed. Following the Renaissance, and during the enlightenment, a so-called scientific revolution occurred, where more and more science was free to investigate the natural world without being bound by religious perspectives. This is known as secular science, and it has always been controversial among fundamentalist religious groups, for abandoning the Word of God in pursuit of knowledge." Human 14:08, 3 May 2007 (EDT)

"scientists will continue to search for a natural explanation for a phenomenon until they find one, instead of settling with a supernatural explanation." This implies they will find one. And I support the move to Physical science. --Hojimachong^talk 13:09, 5 May 2007 (EDT)

How about "in the belief that they will find one" or "based on the expectation that they will find one" in place of "until they find one"? As far as the merge, it makes sense to me, will anyone ever search for "secular science"? They might link to it, I suppose, but that's what redirects are for. So I support the move. Human 13:20, 5 May 2007 (EDT)

I think the title "secular science" is just wierd. It seems to imply that anything which actually looks for knowledge outside the Bible is evil and liberal, which certainly isn't true. --Hojimachong^talk 13:22, 5 May 2007 (EDT)

I'll change, the sentence "based on the expectation that they will find one". But, it is true scientists never keep searching for an explanation until they find one, you wouldn't be a good scientist if you didn't.

Oh, Hojimachong, add egocentric to that (why do these people they think scientists are only out to get the Abrahamic religions?)

Middle Man

Secular science vs Science

Conservative, noticed that you just did this change [1] and claimed it to be unsupported materialism. But one dosen't need to do anything else than just write "secular science" to google and notice that it's very true what the article said. Only times when there is talk specially about "secular science" is when religion is closely linked to the subject, and even then this is usually not done by the scientists themselfs. Timppeli 20:41, 6 May 2007 (EDT)

Sorry no footnote and 55% of american scientists are theists and if memory serves 50% of american scientists are theistic evolutionists. (see: Evolution Conservative 20:45, 6 May 2007 (EDT)