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To: LLCF who wrote (2618)	6/17/2009 4:32:30 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

I think the war between religion and science is an historical fraud pumped up by people with an animus against religion and a desire to rope science into opposing religion. As I've posted the religion-science war meme is rejected by most historians today and was based on historical frauds perpetrated by Andrew Dickson White and John William Draper, even though those prejudices are still held by many. Today, much of the scholarship in which the conflict thesis was based is considered to be inaccurate. For instance, the claim that people of the Middle Ages widely believed that the Earth was flat was first propagated in the same period that originated the conflict thesis[12] and is still very common in popular culture. This claim is mistaken, as the contemporary historians of science David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers write: "there was scarcely a Christian scholar of the Middle Ages who did not acknowledge [earth's] sphericity and even know its approximate circumference."[12][13] Other misconceptions such as: "the Church prohibited autopsies and dissections during the Middle Ages," "the rise of Christianity killed off ancient science," and "the medieval Christian church suppressed the growth of the natural sciences," are all reported by Numbers as examples of widely popular myths that still pass as historical truth, even though they are not supported by current historical research. They help maintain the popular image of "the warfare of science and religion."[14] en.wikipedia.org