(March 9, 2010 at 1:34 pm)bibleabc123 Wrote: 1. Christians are against education
One of the biggest lies perpetuated by atheists. It takes only a modicum of reading and intelligence to realize Christians founded Yale Harvard and Princeton, in fact most of the educational system of the United States was established by Christians.
I never assumed Christians were against education. Quite the opposite infact, they seem pro-education, sadly they are for the education of pseudoscience - which is the thing atheists tend to take issue with. Intellegent Design or whatever you want to label it is not a valid science and should not be taught to children and teenagers as though it is valid. If they did teach Intellegent Design in schools, I would be in favour of it, if they use it to make children aware of various forms of pseudoscience and how to spot someone who is propigating something unscientific.
Quote:2. Christians are against science
Many and in fact most scientists have been Christian. Here's a list of 10 I can post the names of at least 30 more influential Christian scientists with the bat of an eye
Nicole Oresme c. 1320-1382 inventor of scientific graphic techniques
Nicholas of Cusa 1401-1464 grappler with infinity
Georgias Agricola 1495-1555 founder of metallurgy
John Philoponus late 6th Century Aristotle's early Christian critic
Hugh of St. Victor c. 1096-1141 theologian of science
Robert Grosseteste c. 1168-1253 reform-minded bishop-scientist
Roger Bacon c. 1220-1292 Doctor Mirabiles
Dietrich von Frieberg c. 1250-c. 1310 the priest who solved the mystery of the rainbow
Thomas Bradwardine c. 1290-1349 student of motion
Johannes Kepler 1571-1630 discoverer of the laws of planetary motion
Johannes Baptista van Helmont 1579-1644 founder of pneumatic chemistry and chemical physiology
The latest date I can see there is 1644. Darwin's 'The Origin of The Species' was published in 1859. These scientists all lived in a time before science really had anything to say against the notion of a creator. Listing scientists who died before the theory of evolution was accepted is a rather pointless affair if you ask me.
Modern day Christians who go out of their way to dismiss evolution, with increasingly ever wackier "evidence" are anti-scientific and they are also morons.
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3. Christians believed the world was flat
The myth that Christians in the Middle Ages thought the world was flat was given a massive boost by Andrew Dickson White's weighty tome The Warfare of Science with Theology. This book has become something of a running joke among historians of science and it is dutifully mentioned as a prime example of misinformation in the preface of most modern works on science and religion.
He finds himself grudgingly admitting that Clement, Origen, Ambrose, Augustine, Isodore, Albertus Magnus and Aquinas all accepted the Earth was a globe - in other words none of the great doctors of the church had considered the matter in doubt.
What can be stated categorically was that a flat Earth was at no time ever an element of Christian doctrine and that no one was ever persecuted or pressurised into believing it.
I never really heard that Christians believed the world to be flat. The Bible does occaisionally point to the fact that its authors thought so however.
