Re: virus: VIRUS: The dangers of God
Nathaniel Hall (natehall@WORLDNET.ATT.NET)
Wed, 12 Aug 1998 06:27:32 -0600
Nathan Russell wrote:
>
> Aristotle alone, with his ideas about falling bodies and celestiel vs.
> terestrial motion, delayed the development of the scientific method greatly;
> even the Catholics, with their opposition to polytheism, didn't pardon
> Galelio and recognize the validity of Gravity until the seventies.... Of
> course, the Catholic heirarchy has a history of lagging behind their
> believers - birth control, evolution, pre and extra maritial sex...
>
I know where you coming from because I use to believe the same thing
myself. But now I realize Aristotle actually helped end the dark ages.
Europe sit around for 1000 years trying to figure out such nonsensical
things as how many angels would fit on a pin or what was going on in the
mind of god. Aristotle taught that the world was objective and knowable.
This is really the first thing you need to get science started. The
second , the experimental method, requires a belief in the first. It was
the reintroduction of Aristotle into Europe after the fall of
Constantinople that got them thinking about worldly things again.
Without him, or someone like him, science would never had started up in
the first place!
Nate Hall