A
scientist working on an astronomical observations says, “The other team
was actually correct, and we were fully contrite in that way" [1].
The day any
religionist says something similar about a religion that he or she does not
subscribe to, people may come and talk to me about how science is also
religion, how religion responds to questions that science cannot, all that NOMA
(Non-Overlapping MagisteriA) stuff as propounded by Stephen J Gould, and justify
the general schadenfreude that religion exhibits when science acknowledges its
failures.
There is a
whole lot beyond science, but there is nothing in religion. Now you know why I
pity religionists. They do not know when they are wrong and they do not know that
they do not know.
Raghuram
Ekambaram
Reference
1. A Supergiant Star Goes Missing, and a
Supernova Mystery Is Solved, John Matson, Scientific American, August 22, 2013
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