(June 9, 2014 at 8:29 am)Fidel_Castronaut Wrote:(June 7, 2014 at 5:13 pm)mickiel Wrote: History records that science once was a child of the church.
I can't help but feel this is just nonsense.
What field of 'science'? When?
You do realise that 'science', as a homogeneous term for the fields of the natural sciences, have been 'done' by humans for thousands of years before the RCC was even a thing?
Its not nonsense, its history. In fact, the Vatican founded some areas of science, and " Re-founded" them;
http://www.livescience.com/27790-catholi...story.html