Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke's third law.
Your lecturer is using this to infer that 'higher' (or not) scientists in general, and Arthur C. Clarke in particular -- a science-fiction writer -- are supporters of satantic magic, and you agree? I'm not sure what to say.
Clarke was proposing that if we don't understand it, we call it magic -- we attribute it to magic. A naked Amazon indian sees an aeroplane. Once we understand it, we become clear that it is not magic. An aeroplane in the sky, for instance.
(Western) people wanting to climb Mt Everest are subject to satanistic influences because human beings obviously aren't supposed to be up there? Your lecturer really does say this.
Jack Parsons -- who it seems had something to do with early days of rockets -- was some sort of occultist? Therefore obviously the rocket engine is a tool of satan?
Remember it is Moslems who invented algebra, etc. It was once an amazingly advanced scientific culture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age
Arthur C. Clarke's three laws:
- When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
- The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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