RE: Evolution
May 1, 2012 at 9:58 pm
(This post was last modified: May 1, 2012 at 10:01 pm by genkaus.)
(May 1, 2012 at 6:16 pm)Abishalom Wrote: My main point is that if it weren't for the Christian worldview science would be totally different today.
Yeah, it'd be much more advanced.
(May 1, 2012 at 6:16 pm)Abishalom Wrote: Science to the Greeks was more speculation than actual fact. Their philosophy was postulate many ideas and never test them, which consisted of circular reasoning to validate the claims.
That sounds uniquely Christian of them.
(May 1, 2012 at 6:16 pm)Abishalom Wrote: It was the Greek worldview that dominated the west for many centuries. That all changed when the Christian worldview became dominant in the west.
Yes, it marked the start of the Dark Ages.
(May 1, 2012 at 6:16 pm)Abishalom Wrote: Otherwise, we might still believe that the earth is the center of the universe.
You mean like the Christians did and still would have unless a few brave men had broken away from your dogma?
(May 1, 2012 at 8:40 pm)Abishalom Wrote: The best you can come up with is "some scientists were Christians". That's was never my claim. The first worldview in the west was Greek. Yet science never flourished during this worldview's reign. In comes christian worldview and it is applied to science and we see improvement on old knowledge. This is not to take away form any accomplish from the worldviews prior. But if examined side by side each worldview leading up to the rise of science a case could easily be made that the Christian worldview lie at the foundations of modern science (just examine the basic presumptions and compare them to the Greeks and even eastern mysticism worldviews). Your statement is nothing more than a strawman.
Get your facts straight. The introduction of Christian worldview led to centuries of stagnation for science. They were called the dark-ages. It wasn't until people broke away from your dumb view that there was any actual progress.