Originally Posted By: Mike Kremer

Originally Posted By: redewenur
So, I would modify your observation and suggest that -
conditions for free society = conditions for science.

Mike Kremer 2 redewenur

Yes I'll endorse that last observation of yours.
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I'm not so sure about religion...

Religion does not belong to the set of conditions for a free society and for science.
Religion is a condition that manifestly opposes both freedom and science.

I won't waste forum bytes going into that; Sam Harris, Daniel Dennet, Richard Dawkins, Steven Weinberg and many others are masters of the subject.

"Time is what prevents everything from happening at once" - John Wheeler