Scientia Gnosis

Okay... one's Latin and the other Greek - but you get the point.
It seems that the biggest failures of mankind can be traced to our inability to properly understand the relationship between science and religion.

Usually, we have attempted to reconcile the differences by making up religious mythologies that line up with our current understanding of the sciences.
But this methodology seems backward.
Maybe we need to align our scientific understanding with that of religion.

At about 606 B.C.E.,
Daniel 1:4 states - "Children in whom was no blemish, but well favoured, and skillful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability in them to stand in the king's palace, and whom they might teach the learnings and the tongue of the Chaldeans."

Apparently, there was no problem with the early Biblical figures having an understanding of the sciences.

But learned men like Aristotle (Between 384-322 B.C.E.) somehow pitted "knowledge" against religion by making ridiculous claims that lacked the rigour of scientific proof.
Since Aristotle was considered an academic all-star - his opinions were often viewed as facts.
But this made as much sense as Michael Jordan trying to play baseball.

Among Aristotle's more "brilliant" musings;
- He didn't believe that plants had male and female counterparts.
- He didn't believe in inertia.
- He believed that the Ptolemaic view of our Solar System was the correct view. (Later, supported by the Catholic Church even after Copernicus and Galileo could prove it wrong.)
- Thought that heavier objects fell faster than lighter objects.
- He disagreed with his contemporaries (Democritus and Hippocrates) in thinking that the seat of human thought, intelligence and emotion emanated from the heart.
"The brain is an organ of minor importance, perhaps necessary to cool the blood." - stated Aristotle.
(Although recent evidence seems to ad the bowels or digestive tract to the mix - and possibly adding greater insight to Isiah 16:11, Jeremiah 4:18, etc.)
- He dismissed Democritus' concept of our physical world being made up of tiny pieces of matter, which he called atoms.

But even during the time of Christ (and shortly after) - scientists were active in taking part in religious events.
The Magi (possibly descendants or associates of the favoured Jews of the Captivity in Babylon) were called to bear witness of the Messiah's birth.
Collossians 2:8 states - "Believe lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit"
Timothy 6:20 states - "O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called."
Maybe Paul had read some of Aristotle's observations.

Now String Theory and Unification Theory are sounding more and more like the Big Bang was the same thing as God creating the Universe(s).
What did the Gnostics know?