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A few problems with the article
[[User:RodWeathers|RodWeathers]] 15:39, 6 February 2008 (EST)
[[User:RodWeathers|RodWeathers]] 15:39, 6 February 2008 (EST)
== A few problems with the article ==
Reading through the article it makes the point that most of the scientific break throughs were preformed by Christians and that is true however, it really isn't relevent if the scientific revolution had happend in say China most of the break throughs would have been made by Confucians or Buddhists in Europe you were either Christian, Jewish or dead (Often dead regardless) and often both thanks to the various wars that occured so the fact that most break throughs by christians is really a matter of them being at the right place at the right time then anything else. Also the largest reason for the scientific revoultion is becaouse of the Black Plauge killing off most the establishement that had previously suppressed most progress. As a side note the Roman Catholics at first suppressed the heliocentric view of the world (Copernicus' theory wasn't published until after this death) and it was the work of Gallieo (placed under hous arrest) and Johanne Kepler (Who had to defend his mother from the charge of witchcraft) that proved the heliocentric theory. On another note the fact there were so many wars shook up most worldviews allowing people to have new questions and the creation the printing press caused an upswing in literacy and scientific thought because more people were questioning things