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To: The Philosopher who wrote (83859)	7/15/2000 2:09:25 AM
From: Krowbar	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

<< ...religion has been the reason for many advances in knowledge. Much of architectural knowledge, for example, was discovered because man wanted to build edifices to the gods -- the arch, the minaret, Stonehenge, the pyramids, on and on. >> Religion inspired men to build these things, but they had to use the scientific method to understand how to build them. Religion contributed no knowledge to the builders. << During the dark ages much of man's knowledge and wisdom was preserved in the monestaries, by copyists trained and supported by the church. >> It was anti-scientific and anti-intellectual thought that lead to the dark ages. Righteous Christians burned priceless books at Alexandria and other places which represented the accumulated knowledge up until that time. We would probably be far more advanced if that hadn't happened, and a cancer cure would have occurred long ago. We would probably be colonizing Mars. If some of the scientific knowledge was preserved by monasteries, it is a pittance compared to what was destroyed by Christians. << The civil rights movement in the 60s would probably never have come into being if it hadn't been nurtured in the churches by religious leaders. >> Huh? You can thank the hippies far more than any white church leader for helping the civil rights movement. Name one prominent white church leader that immediately took the side of the blacks. BTW, the NSF recently made a statement that they could not recommend one Biology book now in use by our schools, and that they would prefer that the students used no book rather than what is available now. I challenge you to present even one paragraph from a currently used high school Biology book that unambiguously states that evolution is a fact. Del