In [[Reference Notes/The God of the Left Hemisphere|The God of the Left Hemisphere]], Roderick Tweedy shows how Blake saw science as similar to religion in the sense that both rely on "notions of law, order, coherence, binary systems, and linear time." Both science and religion share "a common Urizenic basis". "Both systems of thought obey the same basic program and are expressions of the same power." In the poem Jerusalem, he has Urizen declare: "I am God O Sons of Men! I am your Rational Power!" Science can be seen as a different operating system from religion, but based on the same underlying logic. The move from religion to science is best represented by the figure of Galileo. The hagiography of Galileo has been used to distance science from religion, but what got Galileo excommuicated wasn't that he claimed the earth revolved around the sun, it was that he tried to elevate hypothesis to absolute truth. Both Pope Paul V and his successor Urban VII were admirers of Galileo. --- In [[Being Salmon, Being Human]], this same notion of history and linear time is set in opposition to Indigenous ways of perceiving presence through place. > As the historian Vine Deloria observes: “The places where revelations were experienced were remembered and set aside as locations where, through rituals and ceremonials, the people could once again communicate with the spirits. . . . [R]evelation was seen as a continuous process of adjustment to the natural surroundings and not as a specific message valid for all times and places.” > From a historical perspective, the notion of creation implies a singularity in time, an event effected and completed in historical time. From a place-based perspective, that which we commonly call creation is rather experienced as an ongoing creativity, or, in other words, as an expansive activity or agency inherent in all things. “At no point does any tribal religion insist that its particular version of the creation is an absolute historical recording of the creation event or that the story necessarily leads to conclusions about humankind’s good or evil nature,” Deloria observes. “At best the tribal stories recount how the people experience the creative process which continues today.”