(December 7, 2010 at 8:22 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote: Science itself is a direct result of monotheistic religion (Whitehead's Hypothesis). This is a well known fact that even Richard Dawkins agrees with. The YEC guys I mentioned did their science because of their Biblical views. They believed (and rightly so) the universe was created by a rational being and therefore could be rationally understood. If our thoughts were just a result of chemical reactiions that are all a result of one cosmic accident, there would be no reason to believe that the chemicals in your brain could better understand their surroundings than someone else's chemicals. There would also be no reason to even trust your senses. So science itself is based upon purely religious and creationistic axioms whether you like to admit it or not.
You would not be saying that if the science developed by the Greeks stopped developing as soon as it emerged and instead develop into a sort of science we know today. The only reason science emerged as I can see it, is because in the west it was decided that if reason and revelation conflicted, reason overrode faith. It could have easily gone the other way and science would have never emerged.
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