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[DuncanONeil]

Religion has always fluorished in ignorance.

In the Renaissance most of the scientists WERE members of various religious orders.

[Thorne]

In the Renaissance most of the scientists WERE members of various religious orders.

That's mostly because only the members of the religious orders, and perhaps some of the nobility, were encouraged to be educated. And it was the religious orders who did all the teaching, for the most part.