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Christianity or Protestantism?
: "''And secondly, you say China's advances ...''": No, that wasn't me saying that. That was someone else reviewing a book by Rodney Stark, an agnostic I believe.
: "''And secondly, you say China's advances ...''": No, that wasn't me saying that. That was someone else reviewing a book by Rodney Stark, an agnostic I believe.
: [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 00:07, 18 January 2008 (EST)
: [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 00:07, 18 January 2008 (EST)
== Christianity or Protestantism? ==
WKirkwood changed the article to attribute the origins of science to Protestantism rather than Christianity, claiming that the individual freedom that Protestantism brought enabled science. Although I accept that at time Catholicism has not encouraged individual freedoms, I don't believe that his claim regarding science is correct, and it is not supported by the sources used in the article, which attribute science to Christianity, not Protestantism.
Galileo, for example, was Catholic, and was supported, if my memory is correct, by the Jesuits. And then there's this:
{{QuoteBox|Science historian John Heilbron provides further evidence in his book ''The Sun in the Church''. In this book, favourably reviewed by the secular science journals ''New Scientist'' and ''Science'', he shows that far from opposing astronomical research, the church supported astronomers and even allowed the cathedrals themselves to be used as solar observatories—hence the subtitle of Heilbron’s book, ''Cathedrals as Solar Observatories''. These observatories, called ''meridiane'', were ‘reverse sundials’, or gigantic pinhole cameras where the sun’s image was projected from a hole in a window in the cathedral’s lantern onto a meridian line. Analyzing the sun’s motion further weakened the Ptolemaic model, yet the Church supported this research. And Arthur Koestler documented that only 50 years after Galileo, astronomers of the Jesuit Order, ‘the intellectual spearhead of the Catholic Church’, taught geokinetic astronomy in China.[http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/4115]}}
[[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 01:27, 18 January 2008 (EST)