Nowadays, people believe religion and science are in conflict with one another; a study created by Troy Van Voorhis, an MIT Chemistry professor, expressed how seventy percent of young adults between the ages 18-23 agreed on the perceived idea that there is an existing dispute between these branches. However, the reality is that only eleven percent of Americans belong to a religion which denies findings of modern science, and 52 percent of scientist believe that there is a superhuman being or spirit which has power over nature and/or human fortunes. Moreover, Voorhis declared how, although, he studies science for a living, it may not answer all questions. “We are left with a feeling that there must be something more… Christianity doesn’t limit
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Also, alchemical societies still exist, occult journals still publish articles by believers in alchemy, and there is even one alchemical college featuring laboratory work in the United States. Despite the apparent fictional and mythological perception of Alchemy, it has been confirmed how “the simple substances were not simple and that… atoms were compound bodies.” Similarly, certain modern critics of science, viewed with skepticism the prevailing discoveries of Alchemy because it defined nature in a complex manner composed of a multitude of elementary building blocks. Alchemy has been seen as a complex unidentifiable pseudoscience due to the fact that the most famous alchemist obsessed with secrecy, and deliberately described their experiments in metaphorical terms laden with obscure references to mythology and history. “For instance, a text that describes a “cold dragon” who “creeps in and out of the caves” was code for saltpeter (potassium nitrate)—a crystalline substance found on cave walls that tastes cool on the tongue.” Conversely, there was an experiment conducted by Larry Principe, a professor of organic chemistry and the history of science at Johns Hopkins University, he studies alchemy with the goal of understanding the evolution of modern-day
Also, alchemical societies still exist, occult journals still publish articles by believers in alchemy, and there is even one alchemical college featuring laboratory work in the United States. Despite the apparent fictional and mythological perception of Alchemy, it has been confirmed how “the simple substances were not simple and that… atoms were compound bodies.” Similarly, certain modern critics of science, viewed with skepticism the prevailing discoveries of Alchemy because it defined nature in a complex manner composed of a multitude of elementary building blocks. Alchemy has been seen as a complex unidentifiable pseudoscience due to the fact that the most famous alchemist obsessed with secrecy, and deliberately described their experiments in metaphorical terms laden with obscure references to mythology and history. “For instance, a text that describes a “cold dragon” who “creeps in and out of the caves” was code for saltpeter (potassium nitrate)—a crystalline substance found on cave walls that tastes cool on the tongue.” Conversely, there was an experiment conducted by Larry Principe, a professor of organic chemistry and the history of science at Johns Hopkins University, he studies alchemy with the goal of understanding the evolution of modern-day