Was the ancient greek philosphers quest to understand the world down to christianity?
The fact is that people have always wanted to know how stuff worked. some people tried to work it out (often geting it wrong but thats beside the point).
The other explanation people came up wih was 'god did it' which as an argument retards further investigation and stiffles research, there are many examples of the church railling against scientific advances. evolution, cosmology, stem cell research to name just a few.
There was a period in he victorian era when he idea of studying nature to 'discover the work of god' became popular in some churches, most notably the C of E.
Its in this period that some intrepid country vicars managed to make some interesting discoveries.
It is interesting to note that initially darwin was one of these seekers after the work of god, he found no trace of god though and his work actually led to his atheism.
The scientific method is he only way to finally prove the truh of something and no trace of god has ever been found wih it.
The fact is that people have always wanted to know how stuff worked. some people tried to work it out (often geting it wrong but thats beside the point).
The other explanation people came up wih was 'god did it' which as an argument retards further investigation and stiffles research, there are many examples of the church railling against scientific advances. evolution, cosmology, stem cell research to name just a few.
There was a period in he victorian era when he idea of studying nature to 'discover the work of god' became popular in some churches, most notably the C of E.
Its in this period that some intrepid country vicars managed to make some interesting discoveries.
It is interesting to note that initially darwin was one of these seekers after the work of god, he found no trace of god though and his work actually led to his atheism.
The scientific method is he only way to finally prove the truh of something and no trace of god has ever been found wih it.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
