Stone age brain surgery

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6. Yes, the church did obstruct the dissection

of bodies for anatomical studies. I did not say otherwise.

Yes, there are some churches today that obstruct scientific development in medicine, e.g. the study of stem cells. I believe that my post did point out that some churches, though not all, continue to obstruct scientific studies today. But there is no "THE church" today. There is no central church authority today as there was for many centuries in Europe in the past. There are some religious denominations that have a central authority structure for themselves and their members, but they do not speak for or represent the views of all religions.

So the only disagreement between us that I see is on the historical mutual influences of religion and philosophy on each other and how science evolved into a field of its own out of the two. The following article explains the historical connections and developments going back to the ancient Greeks and up through history to the present.

https://explorable.com/history-of-the-philosophy-of-science