Looking at history, at one point the church was one of the most into science. Backing other’s discoveries and a lot of monks and priests even being considered scientists. But then at one point science became heresy and some of the scientists we know of today ended up in arguments with the church and I’m honestly intrigued at how it all happened.
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Monks and priests were basically the only literate members of society so they could write down their ideas or copy previous ones. A tiny minority of those people like Gregor Mendel actually did science, once literacy became a more widely available skill scientific knowledge exploded. The church didn’t back science, they backed the preservation of existing knowledge and supported people who weren’t going to question the existence of god or disrupt previous known science.
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