[FoRK] Mythbusting the standard religious anti-science line

[Jeff Bone]

On Dec 3, 2007, at 3:42 PM, Sat N wrote:

>  Where I grew up, it is not
> uncommon to see scientists go to a temple before heading to work.
> In
> fact, they do a Pooja ( religious offering) before they launch any
> satellites in India even today.

Shall we just say that a society that has, what, something  
approximating 3.3 x 10^8 dieties is rather clearly demonstrating an  
extreme pro-mysticism bias to begin with?  Or conversly, that the  
notion of a "god" in such a society is inherently so diluted as to  
make the argument qualitatively different from the argument about  
science vs. religion in a "Western" context?

Sadly even Ramanujan was afflicted with deep mystical tendencies.

jb