Which are the projects(experiments) in science that haven't been able to develop because of Christians?

Question

Projects or areas in science that haven't been able to develop because Christianity has been agaisnt it.


I know Cloning is one. What else?

vicsikix, I am a christian. I am just trying to understand atheists or non-believers point of view since I am a science student.

Answer 1

Cloning isn't just because of christians, it's an ethical problem, and even atheists have some ethics. Stem cell research is going on, just can't use aborted babies, but they're having great success with umbilical cord cells and from retrieving cells from living adults.

Abortions aren't exactly science anyway, they've already figured out how to abort babies. Euthanasia isn't science either, I think humanity has already learned how to kill. Other than that, I can't think of any science that christianity has interfered with.

Answer 2

I lived and worked as a field veterinarian in one of the poorest places in the Western Hemisphere. The region I worked in was predominantly Catholic, followed by Evangelical, with a smattering of Native beliefs (mostly forced out, or blended interestingly with Catholicism).

I was absolutely horrified how the church influence promoted a state of abject poverty for these people. Sermons advised people not to trust doctors or vaccines. Women and men desperately seeking methods to reduce their fertility (realizing that the infant mortality rate of 22% was due to lack of resources to care for children) were told they had no control over these things. Children were not a product of men and women haiving sex, they are actually "willed by God" as a woman reaches a certain age. Everything that happens is "God's will", therefore you should not bother seeking education for the next generation. And so on. Each doctrine fed on and reinforced the last.

Some of the biggest crimes against humanity are the states of ignorance that entire socieities are kept in, and the religious denial of basic medical and humane care. I can honestly say that from what I saw the Church plays a large role. there is also a direct correlation between Church power and influence in people's lives and resource misuse, environmental degredation, and gender inequality.

As we attempt to keep pace with the effects of climate change, the people who are going to suffer the most are those living in poverty conditions in the 3rd World. These are the people who need to benefit the most, quickly, from research for sustainablity, but 2 huge factors stand in the way:

1) it does not pay to invest in sustainability, so top scientists cannot afford to devote their energy to it

2) The Church

Enough said. Roughly 1/2 of the world's population stands to lose if these factors are not overcome. This is the biggest science challenge we face. What field of science are you studying?

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Answer 3

Freezing a person's body until cures are found. Cryogenetics.
All of these things are attempts at man trying to play God. ex: Jesus rose from the dead. Science trying to bring the frozen to life. (If you are not breathing and your heart's not beating, you are clinically dead.)
Christians didn't try to interfere with computer technology, but see how the devil ran with the internet: scams, kidnappings , theft, etc...
It would seem in some cases, science should have a line drawn for them not to cross.

Answer 4

In modern times, it mostly revolves around human reproduction. But, Christianity was responsible for the dark ages that set reason back in the western world for over 1000 years. We probably would have explored the galaxy by now (or desroyed ourselves) if not for Christianity.

Answer 5

"Modern" medicine. The Roman Catholic Church forbid the "desecration" of bodies well into the Renaissance. Leonardo da Vinci broke Church law by dissecting human corpses in his quest to understand anatomy and physiology.


Astronomy: the Church made Oresme recant simply for suggesting that the evidence to that date supported the notion of a heliocentric solar system as much as it supported a geocentric one, made Copernicus live in such fear that he only published his findings when he was dying, and Galileo was forced to reject his own proof that we live in a heliocentric solar system. It is alleged that when Galileo was leaving his trial he was asking is he still believed that the earth moved. Of course he said "No," but under his breath his is rumored to have said "but it does."

EDIT: Sorry, I was thinking historically. But these two fields were certainly set back because of Church dogma and doctrines.

Answer 6

Actually, we don't really know since the Christians have routinely suppressed any scientific advancements.

It is possible some medieval scientist developed a perpetual energy machine, but was executed by the Catholic church or Church of England for his 'heresy."

Answer 7

in case your "IF" will become real then i could believe it. by using the way, stable success to your seek with the aid of fact the tip of the international will come yet your "IF" won't in any respect ever exchange into attainable. See what's the meaning of Lunacy in the dictionary, that could assist you to slightly.

Answer 8

cloning, and embryonic stem cell research. All I know of.
Stem cell research is okay- but Christians do not want embryos developed and brought to maturity so they can be killed to harvest parts.

Answer 9

Isn't it great that God gave us science and scientists to discover all the miracles in life we've been allowed?

OK. I deleted that part. Sorry.

Answer 10

There were probably allot of things and ideas that were hiding away because they couldn't be brought out into the public during their time.