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To: stremba
It's a point that can be debated forever, however, the scientific method was created by professing Christians in Europe as were universities.

Also, the advances in the knowledge of nature in the 400-plus years via the scientific method have been exponentially greater than those that occurred in the 3500 years that Hindu-Arabic numerals were used before science.

And the fellows who cooked up Hindu numerals figured the Earth was supported by 16 elephants :-)

1,337 posted on 02/10/2005 7:15:39 AM PST by Tribune7
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To: Tribune7
And the fellows who cooked up Hindu numerals figured the Earth was supported by 16 elephants :-)

What were the pillars made of that the fellows that cooked up the Bible thought the earth was supported by ...

1,339 posted on 02/10/2005 7:22:59 AM PST by WildTurkey (When will CBS Retract and Apologize?)
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