The Catholic Church doesn’t exactly have a great track record when it comes to matters of science.
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Au contraire!!!
While the Ancients of Babylon & Greece discovered Science, the
Roman Catholic Church of the Scholastics (800-1500 AD)defined it.
The wisdom of Duns Scotus, Ockham and Aquinas, among dozens,
produced the intellectual blueprint for Scientific Learning including;
Goals/Truth and Understanding, Definitions, Activities, Assumptions,
Proscriptions and Motivations.
These guidelines exist to this day in all institutions of scientific learning.