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Yeah that's seems silly, all religions tend to stunt scientific growth as they keep large swathes of people from being curious about why certain things happen a
by stjohnswarts 5y ago
Yeah that's seems silly, all religions tend to stunt scientific growth as they keep large swathes of people from being curious about why certain things happen and just "why?" in general.
- dr_dshiv 5y agoYeah, but polytheistic approaches at least allow for diversity of thought. Like the hermetic philosophies that influenced alchemy. Monotheism (the enforced kind) really stunted philosophy.
- wwtrv 5y agoReligion provided a rules based framework on how the world works, it might have been absurd (from a modern viewpoint) and has largely outgrown it's purpose but humanity had to start somewhere and it's hard to imagine modern scientific method could had been developed without the foundation by built medieval theologians.