• 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    can we stop with this early 2010s debate?

    it’s bullshit all the way. Science is also used to create weapons which creates record numbers of amputees, and religion is still used as propaganda to justify those wars. And even with prosthetic limbs, access might be limited based on profitability.

    the main difference is community support, class issues, capitalism…

    Science and technology advancement by itself is dangerous if society doesn’t advance as well. regardless of the specific religion or lack thereof.

    Saying that as an absolute science nerd with a STEM PhD,

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        28 minutes ago

        1982 to be exact, when Thomas Dolby was blinded with science much like Saul was once blinded by Jesus on the road to Damascus. It’s poetry in motion.

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        13 minutes ago

        that debate probably existed much earlier. wouldn’t surprise me if some shaman’s were upset at those high tech craftmen with copper tools and those craftmen though the chaman was crazy…