Ishmael
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Possible Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson suggested over the weekend that religion was necessary for testing scientific theories because the science could be propaganda.
On Sunday, NBCs Chuck Todd asked Carson, a former neurosurgeon, how science could coexist with his conservative Christian principles.
A persons religious beliefs are the things that make them who they are, gives them a direction in their life, Carson opined. But I do not believe that religious beliefs should dictate ones public policies and stances.
I find, a very good measure of correlation between my religious beliefs and my scientific beliefs people say, how can you be a scientist, how can you be a surgeon if you dont believe in certain things? he continued. Maybe those things arent scientific. Maybe its just propaganda.
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Read more: Ben Carson: Religion is needed to interpret science because ‘maybe it's just propaganda'
On Sunday, NBCs Chuck Todd asked Carson, a former neurosurgeon, how science could coexist with his conservative Christian principles.
A persons religious beliefs are the things that make them who they are, gives them a direction in their life, Carson opined. But I do not believe that religious beliefs should dictate ones public policies and stances.
I find, a very good measure of correlation between my religious beliefs and my scientific beliefs people say, how can you be a scientist, how can you be a surgeon if you dont believe in certain things? he continued. Maybe those things arent scientific. Maybe its just propaganda.
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Read more: Ben Carson: Religion is needed to interpret science because ‘maybe it's just propaganda'
