(September 10, 2019 at 11:59 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: Because it generally was. From the times that long predate Christianity.
Well, "it just was" doesn't really answer my question. How and in what way did religion work to oppose science? Names, dates, stated policies would be helpful here.
Yes, there were times and places in which Christians didn't want certain kinds of research to go on. But this is different from stating that religion is always, fundamentally, or essentially opposed to science.
Quote:Aeschylus wrote in "Prometheus Bound" that Prometheus is the source of all knowledge about medicine, and that anybody who claims to have discovered some cure by himself is lying.
This may be mixing up categories a bit.
The fact that all knowledge is said to originate with the gods doesn't mean that we shouldn't do research or apply what we learn. It only means we have to be humble about the source of the knowledge. Plato tells a myth in which all knowledge is remembered from a time before our birth. This doesn't mean we shouldn't try to remember it, only that it isn't something we came up with originally ourselves.
Granted, this might mean that an ancient Greek receiving the Nobel Prize might have to thank Asclepius for his assistance, but it doesn't mean that research is bad.
Anyway, nobody does discover anything by himself. Shoulders of giants and all that. The myth seems to be more anti-hubris than anti-science.
