RE: Scientific Knowledge? If there is no God?
September 6, 2011 at 2:44 pm
(This post was last modified: September 6, 2011 at 2:58 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Science was done before the scientific method was available.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thales
(could go back further if we wanted)
Science and atheism both predate christianity by a wide margin.
(i wrote a blog post about it, if the blog ever gets off the ground)
The western world was actually a late comer to this party, as eastern tradition had rebelled against the idiocy of their own religious thinking very nearly one thousand years before the birth of christ with the statements
"Fire is hot, water cold, refreshingly cool is the breeze of morning; By whom came this variety? They were born of their own nature"
"If he who departs from the body goes to another world, how is it that he come not back again, restless for love of his kindred? Hence it is only as a means of livelihood that Brahmans have established here all these ceremonies for the dead, — there is no other fruit anywhere."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thales
(could go back further if we wanted)
Science and atheism both predate christianity by a wide margin.
(i wrote a blog post about it, if the blog ever gets off the ground)
The western world was actually a late comer to this party, as eastern tradition had rebelled against the idiocy of their own religious thinking very nearly one thousand years before the birth of christ with the statements
"Fire is hot, water cold, refreshingly cool is the breeze of morning; By whom came this variety? They were born of their own nature"
"If he who departs from the body goes to another world, how is it that he come not back again, restless for love of his kindred? Hence it is only as a means of livelihood that Brahmans have established here all these ceremonies for the dead, — there is no other fruit anywhere."
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