... foundations, their attempt to hide the fact shows us that science had lost its priority against religion, because Pythagoreans organized their lives according to their religion and they didn't want to change their life style. Science and religion, two ways people had chosen to satisfy their feeling of wander against the secrets of the universe, may intersect according to some points of view. But while science depends on questioning the previous founding and accepts the possibility of the falsity of them, religion rejects to change any idea which is accepted to be true (James, 1997). Religion accepts those as absolute facts. That is what we call dogmatism. Against dogmatism, scientific facts loose its power. People can reject obvious facts, which is the case of Pythagoreans. In ancient Greece, where scientific thought first developed, religion had an important position in people's lives. For that reason, when people confused about what they observe in nature, they were looking for the answers of their ...

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