“Anyway, you can have Science in place of God.” It feels good to talk like this, even hushed and crammed into a corridor. I haven’t had a chance to stretch these mental muscles for a while. “People’ve dressed up their justifications in a white lab coat since lab coats got white. Except science can also be powerfully inconvenient in that it’s supposed to shift to follow what you’ve learned about the world, while doctrine is supposed to be iron. And the universe is inconveniently big and complex, you know? You keep moving out from your core need of ‘we have to justify why we get to tell you what
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