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by duskwuff 2076 days ago
Or, more frequently, a religious text may contain a story or a statement which can be subjectively interpreted as representing a modern scientific truth.
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Yes, but that only happens after the fact. Meaning, it's a story that gets interpreted in a way consistent with the science only after we knew about the science. Whereas beforehand, it might've been interpreted quite literally, or metaphorically but about something other than the science entirely.

I'm skeptical that religion ever contains a story or statement that represents modern scientific truth except as an accident or as a post-hoc interpretation to make it consistent with the science.