DIVINE AND SECULAR CASE STUDY OF DIVINE INSPIRATION IN SCIENCE

Science and faith have been intermingled throughout the history, as paradigms of rational and irrational sides of homo sapiense. This should not come as a surprise, since they sprang from a common trunk, being inseparable in the phase of prehistoric, traditional societies. Here we consider the impact irrational had, via the construct of divinity, on the scientific thought. Our interest will be on the socio-anthropic aspects of scientific activities, rather than on the epistemological ones. The latter provides no space for eventual interference, since rational and imaginary have no common cross section. Never-the-less impact of religious syndrome on the scientific minds cannot be ignored. We shall consider a number of cases in point and analyse psychological and social backgrounds of this kind of interference.