...Isn't it appalling that much of humanity has reverted to 'dark age' reasoning (with regards to scientific and religious thinking)?
(Note: Of course we have discovered and invented many things since then - but I'm talking about our 'way of thinking' - and not about our 'advanced gadgets' or our 'humanitarian ways'.)
2007-04-11 01:37:43 · 8 answers · asked by Yahoo user 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Oops! Do bear with my 'typo'. I mean three-and-a-half. Thanks for the good support.
2007-04-11 01:46:25 · update #1
To answer Stephun: Sure, what we think privately is fine - but we also know well that scientists, politicians, education systems and the media do their best to taint information. That's not OK!
2007-04-11 01:54:24 · update #2
To Dewcoons: I wouldn't be so quick to say that Galileo had a cup of tea with the church officials. He did actually have to stand for a religious trial and had to make a false statement to avoid even harsher punishment. My apologies for not finding a better word for 'house arrest', though. House arrest is no light matter for a frail old man.
2007-04-11 02:03:12 · update #3
it was experts that put Galileo in jail. last night they had a show on the history channel about asteroids and them taking out the dinosaurs and in the 1970's the theory was brought out about it and the "experts" downed it and if they could have i think they would have put those guys in the same place as Galileo.. I'm amazed that humans have made it this far.
2007-04-11 01:54:46 · answer #1 · answered by ♥lois c♥ ☺♥♥♥☺ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are aware that Galileo was never imprisoned for heresy right? You have actually taken the time to read the facts of that event, haven't you?
When controversy arose over Galileos statements that the Bible was not to be taken literally, but only as a book of poetry, Galileo himself travelled to Rome and ask for an audience with the Pope. He was not arrested ot placed on trial. HE ASKED for the audience.
After presenting his ideas to Urbam VIII, the Pope requested that Galileo include an appendix in his book that would allow the church to answer his arguements. The appendix would not argue the issue of the sun/earth relationship, but only the issue of the reliability of scripture.
Galileo added the Pope's section, but had them spoken by another character within his book. This did not please the church, which had Galileo placed under house arrest until he agreed to place the Pope's words into its own appendix as originally agreed.
At no time was Galileo imprisoned for his scientific theory.
2007-04-11 08:51:27 · answer #2 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One of the conceits of modernity is a "myth" of progress. This "myth" of progress is not just about advances in technology, but in terms of human nature itself. Modernity has advanced the notion that in its quest for rationalism, humanity itself has become more advanced intellectually, morally and spiritually. Freed from the obscurantism of religion and tradition, humanity would be perfected and manifest itself in progress and enlightenment. This "myth" was demonstrated to be entirely fallacious in the last century, when the body count from the so-called "rational" and "scientific" ideologies of modernity was revealed. We are not "reverting"-- the truth is far darker, we are, despite all our technological advances and despite all our emphasis on our rationalism, still as human as we ever where-- capable of great acts of decency, but also capable of even greater acts of violence, narrowness and terror. Religion and tradition are not the only sources of our darkness. Nor are reason and science. We are.
Perhaps what you are noticing is not so much a "reversion" but the end of the "myth" of progress and the truth that humanity, is much, at least in character, in virtue, and in vice, as it has always been.
2007-04-11 08:49:54 · answer #3 · answered by Timaeus 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Our way of thinking..as in religion. I just don't get it....people think different. Some people need the comfort religion brings. Some people never find the answers. And some look to science and know for sure what they DO NOT believe in. WHY can't we just let it lie and live our own lives to the fullest???
Does it really matter that you believe in science and I believe in the possibility of some God/God's/Goddess'. Or that some lonely person out there wants to send their paycheck to God via the God channels????
2007-04-11 08:43:27 · answer #4 · answered by ste.phunny 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You mean the sun doesn't rush to the other side of the earth after it sets?
Ecclesiastes 1:5 states that "the sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises."
2007-04-11 08:40:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Reverted? No, I don't think they've ever come out of those ways of thinking to begin with. It is sad.
2007-04-11 08:40:21 · answer #6 · answered by KS 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is.
2007-04-11 08:40:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is. It is very sad, too.
2007-04-11 08:40:59 · answer #8 · answered by la buena bruja 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋