The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #158223   Message #3751651
Posted By: Steve Shaw
17-Nov-15 - 01:36 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Pope in America
Subject: RE: BS: The Pope in America
Yes, nanoseconds away from the Big Bang. That's how close we are to understanding what happened. We know what happened to the universe nanoseconds after it began. Nanoseconds in fourteen billion years and no sign of God, poor fellow. Deny the science and celebrate your ignorance. As for science blossoming in Christianised Europe, why, do you think Europe is Christianised now? If bums on pews is any measure, it doesn't come close and probably never did. One difference is that doubters had to shut up in the good old days. You could even get your head chopped off for having the wrong kind of Christianity! If we could ask Darwin, tortured by the realisation that his growing doubts about religion had to be suppressed, or Galileo, a less diplomatic fellow who took on the establishment and found himself incarcerated, I somehow doubt whether they'd be crediting Christianity with any blossoming of science. The very opposite.