Re: Most Important Invention?

[Marvin Long, Jr.]

On Wed, 21 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>  I think things that happened to Socrates, Copernicus, and Galileo prove that 
> religion is the enemy of scientific development, not the nurturer of it.

Maybe it can go both ways, though.  One of Nietzsche's (less offensive) 
theories about Christianity is that it's emphasis on self-analysis for the
sake of confession and repentance engendered a "will to truth" that in
turn helped give birth to the scientific spirit.

Marvin Long
Austin, Texas