(June 15, 2019 at 2:08 pm)pocaracas Wrote:(June 15, 2019 at 8:03 am)Jehanne Wrote: It needs to also be pointed out that Aristotle, even though he was an empiricist who believed that heavier objects fall faster than do lighter ones, rejected Aristarchus' model of a moving Earth. Now, it is possible to detect the motion of the Earth (Foucault pendulum or dropping a ball down into a deep hole near the equator), but no one had done those experiments because they lacked the physics, and hence, any motivation to do the experiments. In fact, the Greeks universally accept Euclid's parallel postulate, and it was not until the 19th-century that non-Euclidean geometry was discovered:
Wikipedia -- Non-Euclidean geometry
This fact alone should end any and all appeals to "Aristotelian philosophy"; it does not matter what Aristotle thought, rather, only what matters is what modern philosophers and scientists think, and most of those do not believe in a personal God, or for that matter, any god:
Philosopher survey
Nature -- Leading scientists still reject God
Are you claiming one shouldn't accept Aristotle's thoughts because he had only an approximate view of geometry?
Being wrong about one subject doesn't imply automatically that he was wrong about all subjects, you know?
It's a question of sifting the wheat from the chaff.
