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To: PatrickHenry
"The point I'm making is that the Olympian gods had nothing to do with the discoveries of the Greek scientists. "

No. The only point that you've made is that belief in Greek gods didn't hinder scientific inquiry either. The point was made in this thread that ID hinders scientific inquiry. Between my list of Christian scientists and your list of Greek discoveries, I'd say we've proven that religion in general doesn't limit scientific inquiry. However there are particular religions such where scientific inquiry is shunned or considered irrelevant. Christianity and the proponents of ID are not one of those.

Jehovah doesn't get credit for Newton's work, Newton does. That Newton was both Jehovah's work and was studying Jehovah's work, does not matter. Anymore than Aristotle, thinking he was Zeus's work when he was actually Jehovah's.

125 posted on 03/13/2004 7:41:46 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: DannyTN
Between my list of Christian scientists and your list of Greek discoveries, I'd say we've proven that religion in general doesn't limit scientific inquiry.

Wrong in both cases. Socrates was sentenced to death for "impiety." And Galileo was convicted of heresy and locked up for the last seven years of his life. These are only the most famous cases. There were others.

Scientists are quite sensitive to such things. Which is why they are quick to resist anti-rational movements like creationism and ID. They know what it's all about, even if most of the followers of creationism and ID haven't a clue.

129 posted on 03/13/2004 7:47:19 PM PST by PatrickHenry (A compassionate evolutionist.)
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