RE: Are Christians Stupid Or Just Ignorant and Delusional?
March 5, 2012 at 5:42 am
(This post was last modified: March 5, 2012 at 5:43 am by Cyberman.)
(March 3, 2012 at 6:41 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Christianity gave you your science by promoting the idea that a God of order and universal truth would create a logical and understandable creation instead of an arbitrary and capricious one. You can argue that it has served its purpose and we've moved on since, but a hat tip would be nice.
Actually, if a hat tip is in the offing it would be to the Greeks; they were the ones who began to look at the world through the lens of naturalistic principles and thus giving us the legacy of what we noe recognise as the scientific method. Clearly many famous scientists of history right up until the nineteenth century, when the Church started to lose its stranglehold on scientific investigation, have been xtian or at least religious in some form but their contributions to science were made in addition to their personal beliefs, not directly because of them.
For example, it wasn't revelation from angels that led to Johannes Kepler discovering his Laws of Motion, nor was it some heavenly vision which gave Galileo his theory of relativity. Incidentally, while the celebrated astronomer George Ellery Hale was inspired by a vision (a green elf) to seek funding for what was then the world's largest telescope, I don't think anybody would cite that as proof of green elves.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
