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<blockquote data-quote="Zardnaar" data-source="post: 7339615" data-attributes="member: 6716779"><p>The church hates science thing is a bit of a myth- at least that is what my University professor argued lol. In the Renaissance for example the church was one of the biggest patrons of the arts and most of the early universities were also tied to churches as well. IIRC it was the Anglican church that more or less ran most of the Universities in the UK a few centuries ago. </p><p></p><p> Its not quite as simplistic as claiming that the church is anti science. It has been on some issues/individuals and it varies by time as well. The net balance overall I would argue is still on the positive side. Technology and sciences has often gone hand in hand with the church, they were the ones who preserved a lot of the knowledge we do have (especially in the east AKA Byzantine Empire), the worlds oldest Koran was preserved in a church, they helped sponsor the Renaissance building techniques on Notre Dame for example were utilised on other buildings.</p><p></p><p> The bible for example is not a perfect account of the ancient world but until recently it was the only one in terms of things like Assyria etc. Early archaeologists at least had a rough idea where to look and what to look for in terms of Iraq/Egypt etc. Even this text we are using is arguably because of the church as they were the ones who preserved literacy in the west, and they spread literacy in the east as well- in Russia for example.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zardnaar, post: 7339615, member: 6716779"] The church hates science thing is a bit of a myth- at least that is what my University professor argued lol. In the Renaissance for example the church was one of the biggest patrons of the arts and most of the early universities were also tied to churches as well. IIRC it was the Anglican church that more or less ran most of the Universities in the UK a few centuries ago. Its not quite as simplistic as claiming that the church is anti science. It has been on some issues/individuals and it varies by time as well. The net balance overall I would argue is still on the positive side. Technology and sciences has often gone hand in hand with the church, they were the ones who preserved a lot of the knowledge we do have (especially in the east AKA Byzantine Empire), the worlds oldest Koran was preserved in a church, they helped sponsor the Renaissance building techniques on Notre Dame for example were utilised on other buildings. The bible for example is not a perfect account of the ancient world but until recently it was the only one in terms of things like Assyria etc. Early archaeologists at least had a rough idea where to look and what to look for in terms of Iraq/Egypt etc. Even this text we are using is arguably because of the church as they were the ones who preserved literacy in the west, and they spread literacy in the east as well- in Russia for example. [/QUOTE]
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