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To: exmarine
These men were able to make their discoveries because they had the CORRECT view of the universe, i.e. that it is ordered and rational. This view was borne out of their judeo-Christian worldview. That is precisely why the biggest scientific discoveries were made in the West and not in China or Africa.

You seem to be making Judeo-Christianity the most important part of scientific discovery, am I correct in assuming this? Are you saying that China has never been more advanced technologically than the West A.D.? Are you also implying that B.C. Greco Roman Europe wasn't the most scientifically advanced culture in the world for it's time despite the absence of Christianity?

3,230 posted on 01/06/2003 12:41:22 PM PST by B. Rabbit
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To: B. Rabbit
Spam for liberalism . . . atheism - - - evodielution?
3,231 posted on 01/06/2003 12:46:41 PM PST by f.Christian
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To: B. Rabbit
Are you saying that China has never been more advanced technologically than the West A.D.? Are you also implying that B.C. Greco Roman Europe wasn't the most scientifically advanced culture in the world for it's time despite the absence of Christianity?

No, I'm saying the most important discoveries were made in the Christian West. Why? Because Christianity is a unifying worldview - the entire universe is ordered by God so that man can comprehend it to a certain extent. Under hinduism, buddhism, taoism, etc., there is no unified worldview, therefore, broad theories cannot develop. Simple. The Romans didn't really discover anything - they were good architects and engineers, that is about it. The Greeks did come up with some important mathematical theories (Euclidian Geometry, etc.), but the biggest theories were after Christianity took hold, after the "scientific method" was developed. Who developed that by the way? And why don't evolutionists follow it?

3,284 posted on 01/06/2003 1:55:01 PM PST by exmarine
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