Comment Re:Probabilities (Score 1) 479
One more thing which I must add to my last post, something which I cannot let past.
Your quote "Now remember that scientific orthodoxy is a vicious and cruel tyrant" and "Look at the history of science - Pasteur was a victim of it" and finally "yet were drummed out of their professions by the tyranny of the orthodoxy" All true, all totally 100% true, I couldnt agree more with you. But to be fair, to be even handled, to be balanced, perhaps I should mention the tryanny of the christians. Can there be a greater tryanny that the world has seen (short of Hitler)? How many crusades were sent into the Muslim lands? How many innocents where slaughtered, men, woman and children, just for not believing in God? How many people were tortured in confessing they were heretics and then murdered for that confession?
Most of western history is a case of 'believe in God or be slaughtered and go to hell', it is only in recent years (last 200 maybe) that that attitude has been toned down somewhat. And thats only because we have been too busy slaughtering each other for geo-political reasons.
It seems to me that Pasteur got off lightly when we was drummed out of his profession. Leonardo Da Vinci was in fear for his life becuase of his scientific discoverys and inventions, but not from other scientists, from the church.
But, believe it or not, after everthing I have said I am still a christian, I am just not a fanatic believer, I am willing to belive more then one possibilty and consider more then one option.
Oh, and I am not afrid to post this under my own name either.
Your quote "Now remember that scientific orthodoxy is a vicious and cruel tyrant" and "Look at the history of science - Pasteur was a victim of it" and finally "yet were drummed out of their professions by the tyranny of the orthodoxy" All true, all totally 100% true, I couldnt agree more with you. But to be fair, to be even handled, to be balanced, perhaps I should mention the tryanny of the christians. Can there be a greater tryanny that the world has seen (short of Hitler)? How many crusades were sent into the Muslim lands? How many innocents where slaughtered, men, woman and children, just for not believing in God? How many people were tortured in confessing they were heretics and then murdered for that confession?
Most of western history is a case of 'believe in God or be slaughtered and go to hell', it is only in recent years (last 200 maybe) that that attitude has been toned down somewhat. And thats only because we have been too busy slaughtering each other for geo-political reasons.
It seems to me that Pasteur got off lightly when we was drummed out of his profession. Leonardo Da Vinci was in fear for his life becuase of his scientific discoverys and inventions, but not from other scientists, from the church.
But, believe it or not, after everthing I have said I am still a christian, I am just not a fanatic believer, I am willing to belive more then one possibilty and consider more then one option.
Oh, and I am not afrid to post this under my own name either.
