(January 11, 2019 at 5:50 am)Belaqua Wrote: And Copernicus didn't "revive" the knowledge of Alexandria
Lol! In what way he didn't revive the knowledge of Alexandria when he clearly attributed the heliocentric theory to Aristarchus who lived most of his life in Alexandria! Aristarchus entirety of work was lost in a great fire that destroyed the library in Alexandria.
And most of the European rediscovery of ancient world came during the renaissance after the fall of Constantinople when some of the ancient books were brought to Europe.
Here are some other rediscoveries
http://www.nautis.com/the-library-of-ale...knowledge/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"