Atheist "church" in London.

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What does the Antikythera Mechanism have to do with being religious or an atheist? Can you find any article which disproves what Tony Freeth and his research team say? The only thing I ask is that it's by someone who has the qualifications to disprove the findings.

However complicated it appears, it is just a device that tracks the celestial motions of astronomical objects (including the earth), as they rotate the earth. By anyone's definition that's a calendar. It doesn't require any computations by the device, the device simply moves the hands on the dials that have been pre-set by the engineer to move when and where he wants them by cutting the gear wheels. It's a remarkable early piece of engineering, but it's not higher than the technology that we know existed at the time - it's just a more refined and very well engineered example of it. The ancient Greeks and Egyptians didn't have the ambition to try and build an actual computer. They also didn't have the technology to be able to build a working computer.

Maybe that's why it's the only one found so far. If it didn't work very well it's unlikely that devices like this would have been mass produced.

It worked fine for tracking the planets according to current Alexandrian/Greek theory at the time. It did what its designer wanted. But it's next to useless once you introduce someone like Newton who figured out that the ancient greeks had no clue as to how the celestial solar bodies actually moved.