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To: tpanther

I didn’t mean to imply that science prospers in theocracies. Islamic countries contribute almost no original science.


656 posted on 08/21/2008 11:57:47 AM PDT by js1138
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To: js1138
Islamic countries contribute almost no original science.

Careful, you're inadvertantly swerving into the fact that the Christian worldview is the basis of modern scientific thinking.

Rise of Early Modern Science

657 posted on 08/21/2008 12:03:21 PM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: js1138

What you don’t realize is there’s zero justification in assereting that if people are given the freedom to present their views in science, it doesn’t mean we’ll automatically be a theocracy.

Or maybe you do and just suppress it.

Frankly, as I said earlier, we’ve already been there, and the irony of the results are that the godless were able to impose THEIR will on the rest of society such that they’ve now done exaclty, EXACTLY to everyone else what they were so afraid of...

science is godless, purposeless, random....etc.

(AGAIN, we’ll leave out the other destructive vacuousness concerning homsexuality and so forth forced on society.)


668 posted on 08/21/2008 12:37:00 PM PDT by tpanther (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing-----Edmund Burke)
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Islamic countries contribute almost no original science.

You don't know your history very well then.

709 posted on 08/21/2008 2:56:59 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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