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.
It might be worth pointing out here the old case of the Pythagoreans, a group with was both religious and mathematical. Certainly, nobody would debate the Pythagorean contributions to geometry, but people often forget that they were, in fact, a religious order, with a rather striking theory that the Earth was not the center of the universe, but revolved around a "fire of Zeus."
-Brian
