RE: Do you think religion is holding society back?
June 28, 2017 at 4:01 pm
(This post was last modified: June 28, 2017 at 4:09 pm by Succubus.
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SteveII
For the 17th century church to have a recognisable policy regarding science they would first have to acknowledge the existence of science. They didn't, how could they? The church didn't reject Galileo's proposals because of some flaw in his calculations, the church didn't have the remotest idea what he was talking about. The collective mindset of the church was completely polarized, you are either for us or against us. At the first hint of a proposal being in conflict with scripture, all debate ends, the old 'repent or burn' now becomes 'retract or burn'.
Well they did take great delight in this sort of thing:
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Quote:...Show me where the actual policy of the church was to curtail scientific discovery--
For the 17th century church to have a recognisable policy regarding science they would first have to acknowledge the existence of science. They didn't, how could they? The church didn't reject Galileo's proposals because of some flaw in his calculations, the church didn't have the remotest idea what he was talking about. The collective mindset of the church was completely polarized, you are either for us or against us. At the first hint of a proposal being in conflict with scripture, all debate ends, the old 'repent or burn' now becomes 'retract or burn'.
Quote:or in the absence of that, show me where a series of organized events were unmistakably designed to do so. <...>
Well they did take great delight in this sort of thing:
It's amazing 'science' always seems to 'find' whatever it is funded for, and never the oppsite. Drich.
