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→Christians and Science: Evidence says otherwise
Again I must protest at this ridiculous article. Christianity has arguably done more to hamper science than to expand it and because of this to say that modern science owes a lot to christainity is ridiculous. From Galileo (forced to recant) to other sceintist at the time trying to prove earth wasnt the centre of the universe. From the destruction of the Great Library at Alexandra to the stem cell issue. In fact, one could argue that science would far and away be more developed now if it was not for christianity.
Again I must protest at this ridiculous article. Christianity has arguably done more to hamper science than to expand it and because of this to say that modern science owes a lot to christainity is ridiculous. From Galileo (forced to recant) to other sceintist at the time trying to prove earth wasnt the centre of the universe. From the destruction of the Great Library at Alexandra to the stem cell issue. In fact, one could argue that science would far and away be more developed now if it was not for christianity.
[[User:MetcalfeM|MetcalfeM]]
[[User:MetcalfeM|MetcalfeM]]
: You might argue that Christianity has done more to hamper than expand science, but you'd be wrong. Galileo was ''supported'' by many in the church, and his opposition comprised ''scientists'' in the church who held to the non-biblical geocentric views inherited from Aristotle. The motivation for many of his critics was not his science, but that he rubbed people the wrong way. See [http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/1625/ here] for a detailed treatment.
: The "other sceintist[s] at the time trying to prove earth wasnt the centre of the universe", Copernicus, Kepler, and Newton, along with Galileo, were all young-Earth creationists!
: The destroyers of the Library at Alexandria are unknown. There is no good evidence that Christians were involved.
: Christians are not opposed to scientific research on stem cells. They are opposed to using ''embryonic'' stem cells, but the science can continue on other stem cells. These other, "adult", stem cells have, by the way, proven to be very useful, whilst the embryonic ones have not proved useful and have their own problems.
: One could argue whatever one likes, but the evidence favours the view that science would not exist if it were not for Christianity.
: [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 22:29, 21 January 2008 (EST)