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The GP is paraphrasing the 10 Commandments as a "Manual for Civilization," I can't imagine respect for medicine/science is high on their list.
by pc86 4y ago
The GP is paraphrasing the 10 Commandments as a "Manual for Civilization," I can't imagine respect for medicine/science is high on their list.
- freedude 4y agoYou do realize that many of the greatest scientific minds and advancements are from people that have a Christian religious background. Some that immediately come to mind are Galileo Galilei, Blaise Pascal, Leonhard Euler, Michael Faraday, Charles Barkla, George Washington Carver, Charles Babbage, and Samuel Morse. And many in that list believed they were better scientists because they followed Christ.
- ClumsyPilot 4y agoGiordano Bruno, philosopher and scientist, burnt at the stake 400 years ago
- ben_w 4y agoAlso: Einstein, Feynman, Aristotle, all famously not Christian, and that's just off the top of my head and limited to Western culture. A westerner not knowing Hasan Ibn al-Hatham, Zhang Heng, and Aryabhata is less surprising (I learned their names in the last 15 minutes), but I think one ought to at least look for counterexamples before asserting any particular culture to be "better" at a thing.
- ben_w 4y agoNot even that good at religion, given what additional stuff there is in the three[0] holy books containing those commandments. [0] Arguably more holy books, but I don't feel like arguing if Mormonism is more different from the rest of Christianity than Islam, let alone the differences between Catholicism and Protestantism.
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