RE: Science was once a child of the church.
June 9, 2014 at 6:47 pm
(This post was last modified: June 9, 2014 at 6:48 pm by mickiel.)
(June 9, 2014 at 6:38 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Why do we get all the crazies?
Those people were born in places where most people were indoctrinated into Christianity, so it's no wonder they were Christian themselves.
Others browned top be born in Japan... not Christian... or India... or Arabia (where Arab numerals come from)...
Here's something else for your "from Christianity" series: castles; bourgeoisie, classical music.
I am not Christian and I could care less about some Christianity series; I am screaming history.
(June 9, 2014 at 6:45 pm)Beccs Wrote:(June 9, 2014 at 6:08 pm)mickiel Wrote: No, no, no; how are you going to separate a mans philosophy from his work? Come come now, the church birthed Charles Bell - the first to map the brain
Robert Boyle- founded modern chemistry
John Dalton - Atomic Theory
John Fleming - Electronics
Issac Newton-- Laws of Grtavity
All Christian, many ministers, some theologians. You cannot change these birth certificates and remove their religion or the churches influence over them.
But, in their day, how far would they have gone if they hadn't professed a religion in the first place, particularly the dominant religion of their culture?
They may have got killed? Who knows?