Just look at this carefully dear viewer.
I wrote-
Quote:Oswald Spengler, in discussing the decisive influence of the Gothic north on the Renaissance in the 15th and 16th centuries, thus finally emancipating the west from Byzantium, he has this to say-
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It was just then, too, that Nicolaus Cusanus, Cardinal and Bishop of Brixen (1401--1464), brought into mathematics the "infinitessimal" principle, that contrapuntal method of number which he reached by deduction from the idea of God as Infinite Being. It was from Nicolaus of Cusa that Liebniz received the decisive impulse that led him to work out his differential calculus; and thus was forged the weapon with which dynamic, Baroque, Newtonian, physics definitely overcame the static idea characteristic of the Southern physics that reaches a hand to Archimedes and is still effective even in Galileo.
So you see--Religion and Science are connected umbilically. In the West I mean.
Incidentally- In one of the gospels I read during the Christmas period Jesus likens earthly existence to a bolt of lightning in the context of the infinite.
"What does this mean master?" they muttered. The Classical world punished public discussion of the infinite and the infinitessimal with death which is why "the streets of Rome are filled with rubble and ancient footprints everywhere."
And to explain to the rabble why anyone who discusses the infinite is being put to death would consitute a discussion of the infinite.
Maybe the good Bishop had been thinking of that passage. Maybe everytime you switch the light on you shoud say "Thank you Jesus".
Instead you pull him to pieces and trash his works and here you are doing a lot more than just switching lghts on.
Now--take a look at wande's signature.
Quote: The better theory is the one that explains more blah blah---
Karl Popper (1902-1994)
By saying my posts are "tired and predictable" in one sweet easy and self-flattering breath wande passes over that post.
Which goes to show that the theory, which I put together myself and sketched in that post, is not of the slightest interest to him. Nor to any of the other anti-IDers either, who only know how to blurt.
And if that isn't a fascinating theory I don't know what is. I have hardly stopped thinking about it since I dreamed it up out of certain connections in my noggin. The umbilical connection between Christianity and Western science as I have maintained since the start.
Bang on topic. Nothing else is on topic compared to that. The invention of our Culture. The only known Culture to have not gone tits up yet.
And struggling all the while in its birth pangs, infancy and adolesences with the historical psuedomorphoses of which there was much to choose from bearing in mind the political accomodations which had to be made either by war or diplomacy.
It's like inventing the micro-chip. Once the use of the micro-chip reaches a certain level, which it now has, it becomes taken for granted. There's no sense of wonder any longer. No sense that when the "Submit" is pressed those little chips, or whatever they call them now, are all busily at work along circuits which a couple of blokes in the pub help look after and which would have mesmerised the whole of Classical philosophy.
It's like forgetting who you are. A thing I try to avoid.
No--wande's signature is like a coffee-table book designed to facilitate the impressing of a visitor with the idea that one is up-to-speed on the scientific front. I'll bet money he hasn't read a Popper book.
fm at least sounds like he's fighting an interdepartmental battle somewhere deep but the rest are poseurs.
And anybody who thinks they know anything about science, and the same applies to those ladies who popped up in wande's recent "UPDATE"" (BREAKING NEWS), has been suitably impressd.
Not me though. I've seen plenty of coffee-table books in my time. Whatever disguise they wear I can see them a mile off.
The assertion technique is a dead giveaway.
