The dark side of this fusion of science and theology was that any contradiction by future scientists would necessarily have to be seen as heresy.
Dead-end thinking occurs when we believe we know the final answer and no more questions are tolerated. It is the root of conflict between science, religion, philosophy, and spirituality. It is the basis of political divisiveness and forms the foundation of oppression, inequality, and even war.
Dead-end thinking is formed by a sense of certainty maintained by dead-end categories that funnels all new information and ways of looking at things into broad categories that allow it to be easily dismissed. Dead-end thinking is both the death and the end of creative thought and alternative perspectives. It creates impermeable walls that compress curiosity and interest into variations of what is already known.
The root of dead-end thinking is fear.
