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Thread #168288   Message #4066500
Posted By: robomatic
29-Jul-20 - 08:05 PM
Thread Name: BS: Why Newton was wrong - slightly
Subject: RE: BS: Why Newton was wrong - slightly
Servetus' 'crime' was disputations in correspondence with John Calvin. I fail to see how that was offensive or asking to get burned at the stake, which was somewhat due to Calvin. Servetus' contributions to science were pretty much unappreciated in his time.

Maybe you'd better describe what you mean about how Islam went through a disputatious time and survived. It seems to me that if that happened it has been long forgotten. Christianity went through major infighting (or between-fighting depending on how you want to address the Thirty Years' War) not even relating to the Enlightenment, which happened barely yesterday in historic terms. Islamic scholarship excelled in the middle ages and preserved a lot of Greek science. The Islamic world in the modern era is quite schismatic and apparently subject to a lot of atrophy or disillusionment, or both.

And it is not science getting politicized in Trump's America so much as certain politicized idealogues denying science altogether.

Religious leaders of all stripes seem to take a dim view of those who challenge their proximity to God or their ability to speak 'for' God. For the most part science has escaped that kind of social dominance.