Debunking anti Christian myth: Did Christianity destroy ancient science?

[QuillAndInkHistory]

Like other none-historical anti Christian myths, the idea that the early church destroyed or held back the achievements of ancient science is widespread in populare culture with persons like Carl Sagan and movies like Agora.

This video takes that myth apart and shows that the early church did not destroy the ancient scientific achievements but was the one institution that preserevd it throughout late antiquity and the early medieval period.

Highly recommend you watch it and share your own opinions on the subject in the comment section.

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[jeager]

The early Church most certainly DID hold science back at least 500 years.
If you don't know that then get an education at an real honest to God university.
Cheesh!


The Galileo affair was a sequence of events, beginning around 1610,[1] culminating with the trial and condemnation of Galileo Galilei by the Roman Catholic Inquisition in 1633 for his support of heliocentrism (Italian: il processo a Galileo Galilei).

From wiki.
You may feel free to educate yourself properly.

[jeager]

The early Church most certainly DID hold science back at least 500 years.
If you don't know that then get an education at an real honest to God university.
Cheesh!


The Galileo affair was a sequence of events, beginning around 1610,[1] culminating with the trial and condemnation of Galileo Galilei by the Roman Catholic Inquisition in 1633 for his support of heliocentrism (Italian: il processo a Galileo Galilei).

From wiki.
You may feel free to educate yourself properly.

WHAT THIS SAYS!

It's no myth but a matter of well recorded history.
Set back at least 500 hundred years thanks to the early Catholic Church.
Mankind might well be traveling to the stars were it not for the Church's lust for
power and rule.

[chosenone]

The early Church most certainly DID hold science back at least 500 years.
If you don't know that then get an education at an real honest to God university.
Cheesh!


The Galileo affair was a sequence of events, beginning around 1610,[1] culminating with the trial and condemnation of Galileo Galilei by the Roman Catholic Inquisition in 1633 for his support of heliocentrism (Italian: il processo a Galileo Galilei).

From wiki.
You may feel free to educate yourself properly.

WHAT THIS SAYS!

It's no myth but a matter of well recorded history.
Set back at least 500 hundred years thanks to the early Catholic Church.
Mankind might well be traveling to the stars were it not for the Church's lust for
power and rule.

Why are you quoting and answering you own posts?

[The Barbarian]

Carl Sagan once noted that the greatest setback for science was not the Medieval period (the occasional reaction of some church authorities to science was symptom, not a cause of those times) but the loss of the scientific findings of the Greek Ionian scientists in the Hellenistic period.   Aristarchus of Samos had discovered that the Earth went around the Sun, that knowledge was lost until Copernicus.   There was a lot more, that had to be rediscovered as a result of that retreat from rational discovery.

[Ohan]

Yep, it's true a western Church was wrong about the movement of the earth in relationship to the sun~ Galileo was a Christian~ his observation was questioned by someone/someones in political authority in a western church ~  Christians and Christian Nations made the great advancements of modern medicine and every other science ~ that we live with today ~ science was not set back at all with the disagreement over the sun and earths travel ```

Astronomy is alive and well and is sometimes right ~ sometimes wrong ~ think we would have gone to the moon sooner ~ if ```??