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What if the bible would have encouraged scientific exploration?
Let's say that the first chapter is just slightly modified with something like "And God created the divine rules that would control land, water, animals and everything between."
Somewhere in the bible it is also explained that the purpose of mankind is to constantly learn more about God's creation, to understand the rules on which he created the universe, that these rules never change - neither by humans nor by God and that man should always use his intelligence and creativity to improve the life of himself and his loved ones.
In addition there is a proto scientific method outlined on how mankind should pursue the quest to understand God's rules. For example:
God's rules are understood by first using the intelligence and creativity given to man by God to come up with a hypothesis on why God's universe is behaving in a certain way. Secondly man has to prove his hypothesis by conducting experiments that constantly produce the same result. Thirdly the result of the experiment has to be repeated by third parties.
Working on an ASB / sci-fi timeline where a concept similar to this is explored so it would be interesting to hear what you guys think would be the consequences of such a dramatic change in the bible