07-24-2006, 09:41 PM
Paulose:<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->BUt the same church people are responsible for all the developments in all fields in the world.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I don't know whether you have had the opportunity to watch the BBC series on historical inventions. Major inventions and discoveries in the world were done in the pre-christian and non-christian world (particularly India and China), whether they be in Mathematics, Astronomy, Medicine, and other sciences. With the advent of christianity, and its very adventurous, colorful crusades followed by imperialism, the church did everything to stifle these scientific advances, and impose christian myths to explain every natural phenemenon, and retard all scientific progress.
It was only in the last 1-2 hundred years, and with the separation of state and church, that scientific quests were allowed to progress unheeded. Interestingly, the majority of western scientists today are non-practicing christians. There are some that may believe in some sort of divinity, despite being astrophysicist, mathematician, or molecular biologist, etc., but do not endorse the narrow christian concept of God. Unfortunately, the increase in fundamentalist christianity in the US in recent years has led to increasing efforts by these groups to thwart scientific queries and advances, and impose the bilbilical myths as substitute.
I don't know whether you have had the opportunity to watch the BBC series on historical inventions. Major inventions and discoveries in the world were done in the pre-christian and non-christian world (particularly India and China), whether they be in Mathematics, Astronomy, Medicine, and other sciences. With the advent of christianity, and its very adventurous, colorful crusades followed by imperialism, the church did everything to stifle these scientific advances, and impose christian myths to explain every natural phenemenon, and retard all scientific progress.
It was only in the last 1-2 hundred years, and with the separation of state and church, that scientific quests were allowed to progress unheeded. Interestingly, the majority of western scientists today are non-practicing christians. There are some that may believe in some sort of divinity, despite being astrophysicist, mathematician, or molecular biologist, etc., but do not endorse the narrow christian concept of God. Unfortunately, the increase in fundamentalist christianity in the US in recent years has led to increasing efforts by these groups to thwart scientific queries and advances, and impose the bilbilical myths as substitute.