(September 7, 2011 at 8:34 am)Epimethean Wrote: Rhythm, the Presocratics were positing notions on the nature of things in the 7th C before the crazy Jew, and doing some very similar thinking to their Asian counterparts. This only lends credence to your asseveration that the church had nothing whatsoever to do with science until it was forced to reckon with it.
Actually - it is not science alone that will be the most major obstacle for religion
IT is women - and knowledge of their role
THE major religions all treat women horribly
One must remember that when the major ancient religions were created by humans - women were largely the possession of men.
At that time - before our knowledge of genetics - it was largely thought that procreation did not involve the woman's blood line. THE man provided the "seed" which contained the whole human being - including its own blood supply not shared - and the man PLANTED the seed into the dirt (the woman) to grow in. So - women largely had no rights.
Today - woman who are being repressed in some religions will simply no longer stand or it =- and eventually will go elsewhere - with their children too.
