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Originally Posted by Bicycle Bob
"Institutions of knowledge" had to fight with religious dogma for centuries
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I've heard both sides of this argument from many angles. New ideas always have to contend with dogma. Most new ideas fail against established patterns because most ideas are not better. Innovation requires some new and better ideas to displace the established ideas. That's always a messy process.
Religious institutions were also some of the first scientific institutions. Turns out learning how God's universe and laws work is an interest of religious types.
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By 1965, when I was looking at Universities, there were still tenured professors who wouldn't accept plate tectonics
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... and now most professors think sex is a social construct, but some people were born into the wrong body.
Was blood letting worse, or the dismemberment of functional bodily organs?