RE: Leading neuroscientist: Fundamentalism may be a ‘mental illness’ that can be ‘cured’
May 31, 2013 at 11:43 pm
(May 31, 2013 at 10:01 pm)phil77 Wrote: I was holding Newton up as someone that scientists revere and not as a model Christian.
I do not revere Newton and I am sure no one worships that man in any way. What fascinates people about him is the contribution he made to physics by writing down the laws of gravity.
It is a idiotic illusion to believe that someone has to revere a person that has created amazing things, despite what that person may have done.
The great composer Richard Wagner was antisemite.
The artist Picasso was a mysoginist.
and the list goes on.
Great achievement doesnt mean great personality.
And you are getting everything wrong by assuming that atheists worship scientists.
Quote: Only one man left this earth perfect.
You couldnt resist stuffing this irrelevant information into you rabble of words.
Quote: Atheisism seems to follow a fundamentalism similar to that which is seen in aspects of Christianity and Islam.
Explain.
Quote: Also it is pisspoor to judge a dead bloke ( Newton) from centuries ago with modern ethics.
So you know the answere to the question if a historical persons achievements outway that persons evil?
historians have been debating this question for centuries, and I sincerely doubt that a runarround christian who makes out of touch assertions will have the knowlege to answere let alone to participate in debate arround this question.
The past as horrible, and we have to judge it on the basis of our modern set of values so we do not fall back into it and let it and it`s horrors reapear.
Unless you are the kind of person who would like to persecute jews, see cholera ravage and own slaves?
