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@Eddie

It would appear that Biblical studies, despite heroic efforts to obtain “objectivity,” has not been able to get away from the fact that the motives of the vast majority of people willing to spend their lives studying the Bible are theological and confessional (or, if the Bible scholars in question are atheists, etc., anti-theological and anti-confessional), and that those motives play at least as large a role in the formation of conclusions as any “objective” set of scholarly methods.

In contrast, I would think that electromagnetic theory is done in exactly the same way whether the scientist is a secular humanist, Jew, Catholic, Baptist, Hindu, etc.

This relates to the puzzle / exercise of what to save when facing a cataclysm. The set-up is that a cataclysm is about to destroy most of physical records on Earth but there is a storage facility that will survive. You’re asked what irreplaceable objects to save for future civilizations (human or otherwise), within the constraints of a limited space.

So, do you save works of art or science textbooks?

The answer seems to be: save art, literature and cultural artifacts, because they are unique and irreproducible. Works of science such as chemistry & physics, and mathematical works are always there to be rediscovered, regardless of the culture (or species).