Copernicus was so inconvenienced by Christianity (he was a cleric) that he dared not publish his work, Kepler was an astrologer as well as an astronomer and was hardly an orthodox Christian, Friar Bacon spent much of his life under condemnation of the Church, Newton, of course, was a Unitarian and had to commit perjury to hold his appointment at Cambridge. Christianity has been a terrible obstacle to scientific thought. I notice you didn't mention Galileo who was humiliated, threatened with death, and imprisoned by the church. You failed to mention Giordano Bruno, or Michael Servetus, both burned as heretics. You didn't mention the Jewish scientists expelled from and killed by Spain, Germany, and France. You didn't mention the scientists fired from American universities because they questioned Christian doctrine.
Do you have any knowledge at all of the war between science and superstition that has been taking place for a thousand years? |
