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The same science has happened in two places at once before. Lots of people rush to publish to avoid getting scooped.
Religion is just fiction, so this has not happened there. Heck, Joseph Smith couldn't even invent his religion twice without messing things up.
Maybe not precisely the same as the quote, but it's pretty similar. If there was a true religion, you'd expect it to have happened many times identically all over the world.
I’m not disagreeing with that, but the person claimed it was 100% true and that’s not how science works lol
Scientific innovation that occurs at multiple places coincidentally is not an indicator that there's some grand and unbiased truth to the world, it's an indicator that our shared ideas about the world lead to the same conclusions.
It sounds like you haven't studied the broader fabric of religion much. There are fundamental principles that do indeed pop up in unrelated systems, at least as unrelated as the scientific examples you refer to. That doesn't prove it's true, just that this is an argument built on fallacy. Any differences that exist would just be part of scientific experimentation, so to speak.