Let's look at another definition of 'static': random variation (noise).
Both science and religion refer to human behavior patterns.
Science is a behavioral structure specifically designed to be progressive
in that it makes predictions about observations, tests those observations,
and revises it's theories accordingly.
Through this method scientific theories are continuously refined and
expanded. They have become progressively more powerful in a very concrete
sense over the past few millennia.
I don't see the same progession in religion.
There may be an increased tendency towards metaphoric interpretation of
creation myths as science produces much grander visions of nature, but even
then the fundementalists (literalists?) are still with us.
This is the basic distinction between science and religion.
Parenthetic historical note:
Leibnitz and Newton are usually credited with the independent origin of the
calculus.
Descarte is credited with the orign of anaytic geometry; related, but not
the same thing.
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