| fooflexible said: I love that everyone who believes in evolution acts like they are smarter then people who don't. First off Galileo wasn't killed by the church, he wrote some of his best of his scientific works right up to his natural death( at 78). They did kick him out of church, and house arrest him, which I think made him more productive scientifically, he wrote plenty of books in his house. Then I thought you meant Copernicus, being that he is another noted scientist that the church had problems with. but he died naturally at 70, and in good favor with the church might I add. In fact Science is so quick to claim men like Galileo, Copernicus, and Newton, as their forfathers, but all those men were religious, belived in God and creation, and in fact were motivated scientifically by that faith, and particualarly in Newton's case wrote more about religion then science. |
Do you feel smarter than someone who believes in Zeus, Hera, and the rest of the Greek pantheon on mount Olympos?
What about a doomsday cult that believes the end is nigh, and aliens are coming to pick up the worthy few within our lifetimes?
I don't necessarily believe I'm more intelligent than a creationist, as indoctrination can make even a formidable thinker hold some extremely contradictory beliefs, but I definitely think my worldview is more rational, and better aligned with reality than that of someone who makes important decisions in his/her life based on the recorded oral tradition of a bunch of nomads that wondered around the deserts of the Middle East some 3000 years ago.
But yeah, a lot of the forefathers of science had seriously unscientific worldviews by our standard. Newton, for example, believed he was not inventing anything new, but rather rediscovering "the Wisdom of the Ancients" that the philosophers of ancient Greece and the prophets of the Old Testament had known, but was then lost during "the dark ages". Supposedly this knowledge contained the entire nature of the universe, and completely uncovering it would usher a Golden Age in the Kingdom of God, and other complete nonsense like that.
