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Carlo Rovelli with Nihal Arthanayake

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The Conflict Between Naturalistic Thinking and Religious Thinking

No conflict between religious beliefs and a more rational outlook in the world no conflict at the time but it started very early subsequently because already a century later we know that the kind of thinking of the mergers from Milletus started creating conflicts. We have good traces of this conflicts in Athens a hundred years later when an exegoras who was a physicist the follower of the Milletus school was exiled because of disrespect of the gods. There is a famous example which is Socrates Socrates was condemned to death for disrespect for the gods for teaching a new way of inquiry according to the people in Athens was not taking the gods into account.

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