Re: Praying for rain and stuff (Long, but meaty)

[aleggett]

Greg Wrote   At the same time as this handicapped empiricism was stumbling along, a full-blooded empiricism existed in another tradition of thought. Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa rejected this slavish adherence to the ancients and their mysticism in his "Learned Ignorance" (written 1440, published 1514). In the same tradition Regiomontanus (1436-1476) contemptuously stated (1464):   �� I cannot get over my amazement at the mental inertia of our astronomers in general who, like credulous women, believe what they read in books, tablets, and the commentaries as if it were the divine unalterable truth; they believe the authors and neglect the truth.�     Is this any different to the way some people treat the Bible?  Allan