Creationist designers?
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- TheBlueOne0
"Religion versus science How did that ever come to be?"
- HorpWell if anyone is even the least bit familiar with the development of science, it's blatantly obvious that the problem really is a primate hierarchy who has the most peanuts one.
Newton, Bacon et. al. at the origins of what we would consider modern science were not out to "invent" science. They were on a very serious religious quest. Alot of Newton's stuff was whitewashed before publication. What was going on in the heads of these guys was to use this new "scientific approach" to discover the mind of God. It was an alternate to the evil alchemist tradition, which was seeking to bend nature against God's Will, where Science was seeking to simply discover God's Mechanism's. Science was a religious quest from the very beginning.
The problem was that it challenged authority, in essence teh Church. For one example we can call up the whole Galileo earth revolves around the Sun thing. The Church claimed to have the lock on all knowledge, and these young religious heretics were claiming they had an insight into how God ordered the Universe, and well, that's simply not allowed.
Science was a religious quest to begin with, but one that challenged the Church's lock on doctrine and explanation. There is simply no reason that science cannot be have a religious aspect - which is EXACTLY why wherever power in authority is vested in a religious view has issues with science. It has no real issue with if God set up evolution or how physics works really - it's all about authority. It's a civil war, and hence long, bloody and generally stupid about fractional issues that anyone who steps outside of the debate shakes their head at the sheer stupidity of it.
Which oddly enough is a very distinctly primate tribal thing.
- I'd rec digging up a used copy of this book: http://www.amazon.co…TheBlueOne
- You probably just gave me a really good recommendation there TBO, but when I see books with typefaces....Horp
- like that on the cover, some vestigial aspect of my former design life twinges and I can't proceed.Horp
- (See also "AVATAR" and the cafe signage of Glastonbury High Street)Horp
- It was published in the 80's Horp. SO blame the typeface on the 80's.TheBlueOne
- This idea assumes science began with christianityaaux
- Modern science did, built on ancient Greek and some Arab foundations mostly.TheBlueOne
- i love you bri, always so eloquent... spot onmonospaced