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highwaystar101 on 05 March 2010
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Kasz216 said:


Ancient doesn't mean unscientific.  There is TONS of ancient science we are just getting back today.  Do you know how old eye surgery is for example?  Do you know how many generations passed where eye surgery would of seemed impossible even though it once existed in the past, but just wasn't well enough explained in the source text?  This is true for NUMEROUS inventions.

For example... the first analog computer may have actually been invented in the time of the ancient greeks around 100 BC... along with the ancient battery.  How would the concept of a computer or battery be taken before the 1750's?

Or how long it took to rediscover germ theory?

The truth is, the ancient world was much more scientifically advanced then the supserstiouses bunglers people make them out to be... and nothing should simply be considered pure superstition because of the way they phrased things back then.

 

What they called ghosts, demons and Djinn... very well could exist.  It could be that the phrasing of the words and your bias for the modern age isn't letting you see the forest from the trees about what they really are talking about.

Ancient science in a lot of areas may actually have been as advanced, if not more then our own.

 

Don't forget String theory. Half the civilisations in history have proposed string theory at some point, the ancient Greeks were the first many centuries BC. In fact the modern iteration of string theory is said to have been found in a dusty old maths book from 250 years ago, we just resurrected it.

But yes I agree. The ancients (especially the Greeks) had proposed plenty of theories that at the time they couldn't test and so their explanations were seen as vague. But with modern science you can see a lot of them were based on sound logic.such as atoms. The Greeks thought everything was made out of particles, they just didn't know what the particles were, so they designated them Earth, Wind, Fire and Water. We now know these aren't the elements, but their basic idea was along the right lines.

Also, why do people think ancients thought the Earth was flat? I've never understood that, it's been common knowledge that it's round for a long time.