Were the Pythagoreans religious scientists?

Question

From what I've read the Pythagoreans had both a religion and a science, but it is not clear on whether the 2 were fully merged. So were they merged into a religious science?

Answer 1

sort of, they were the founders of Numerology.

Answer 2

Yes. Until at least the Renaissance all science was considered part of religion. Science was an attempt to better explain the natural world. Francis Bacon summarized this philosophy in saying that god wrote two books: the book of words (scripture) and the book of works (nature).

Maimonides, writing around 1200, held that there could be no conflict between the truths we discover in science and the truths we believe to be revealed from god. He felt we come to know God better precisely through science. He even declared that if science discovered a better explanation for Genesis then Genesis should be taken allegorically rather than literally. Note that this was 500 years before Darwin.

The key to all of those who combined god and science was the this belief that if scripture was inaccurate then it should be taken as an allegory. It is only the rise of fundamentalism, first as a catholic response to the Reformation and Renaissance and later as a protestant response to Darwin's evolution and Hutton's and Lyell's geology that has forced the split between science and religion.

Answer 3

The were religious and the same time on there daily job

Answer 4

No, of course not. It was a bunch of scientists who happened to be religious.

Answer 5

Yes they were, but there´s almost nothing written about them these days. All has been lost in the past...

Answer 6

Everyone is always searching for something, but they ignore the God who created all things.

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