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Post by maya55555 on Jan 27, 2019 23:51:50 GMT
Sorry to disappoint the atheists, but Catholics do have intelligence.
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Post by politicidal on Jan 28, 2019 4:46:28 GMT
A quick wiki search on the Big Bang theory proves that. Not the sitcom.
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Post by geode on Jan 28, 2019 6:19:00 GMT
Nicolaus Copernicus is noted right at the start as a great Catholic scientist. I do not take exception with his being a great scientist who contributed much to the understanding of our solar system but the Catholic Church thought differently, at least for quite a while. Galileo was considered a heretic for accepting the Coperinican Theory and placed under house arrest. Why was this not mentioned?
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Jan 28, 2019 6:25:43 GMT
Nicolaus Copernicus is noted right at the start as a great Catholic scientist. I do not take exception with his being a great scientist who contributed much to the understanding of our solar system but the Catholic Church thought differently, at least for quite a while. Galileo was considered a heretic for accepting the Coperinican Theory and placed under house arrest. Why was this not mentioned? Don't you think enough attention has been paid to that already? The video is about Catholic scientists we've probably never heard of. I've heard of Copernicus. I've heard of Galileo.
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Post by Winter_King on Jan 28, 2019 11:11:43 GMT
I'm not disappointed at all. Medieval science in Europe was mostly done by Catholic priests.
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Post by goz on Jan 28, 2019 19:57:28 GMT
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Post by rizdek on Jan 30, 2019 19:23:04 GMT
Sorry to disappoint the atheists, but Catholics do have intelligence.
They learned their lesson the hard way...suffering embarrassment (by their own admission) at their handling of Galileo's proposal that the earth is not the center of the universe and that the earth and other bodies revolve around the sun and not vice versa. So, yes, I, as an atheist agree that in many cases, the RCC demonstrates intelligence.
Would that some posters here would take their lesson to heart. By denying that life could arise naturally, they are disparaging a theoretical god's masterful ability to create matter and energy in just such a way that it would, over the course of hundreds of millions of years, self organize into life and such that evolution would ultimately result in life he could commune with.
Which is the better programmer...the one who is able to program in millions of chess games and thereby create a chess playing computer or the programmer who builds a program with artificial intelligence starting with the basic rules of chess, then has the program itself learn...by playing millions of games the best strategy resulting in the most sophisticated chess program that wins against humans AND even other of the best chess programs.
This atheist is not disappointed at all...more liked relieved. Now if they could just choose priests who didn't diddle altar boys, they might actually have something to brag about.
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Post by rizdek on Jan 30, 2019 19:27:57 GMT
Nicolaus Copernicus is noted right at the start as a great Catholic scientist. I do not take exception with his being a great scientist who contributed much to the understanding of our solar system but the Catholic Church thought differently, at least for quite a while. Galileo was considered a heretic for accepting the Coperinican Theory and placed under house arrest. Why was this not mentioned? I did in my rsp...and I noted that maybe the reason the RCC is being a bit more progressive is that they learned a tough lesson. Good on them!
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Post by maya55555 on Jan 30, 2019 19:33:01 GMT
rizdek
Right, atheists do not have an agenda.
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Post by captainbryce on Feb 1, 2019 6:15:27 GMT
rizdek
Right, atheists do not have an agenda. What "agenda" are you claiming atheists have?
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Post by geode on Feb 1, 2019 8:58:14 GMT
Nicolaus Copernicus is noted right at the start as a great Catholic scientist. I do not take exception with his being a great scientist who contributed much to the understanding of our solar system but the Catholic Church thought differently, at least for quite a while. Galileo was considered a heretic for accepting the Coperinican Theory and placed under house arrest. Why was this not mentioned? I did in my rsp...and I noted that maybe the reason the RCC is being a bit more progressive is that they learned a tough lesson. Good on them! It took them a while to learn it. Formally it took 359 years to reverse themselves. Finally, what took you so long?
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Post by rizdek on Feb 1, 2019 11:04:16 GMT
rizdek
Right, atheists do not have an agenda. You don't share the "agenda" that the RCC has a serious problem? Here they are, touting themselves as the representatives of Christ, the bastions of morality, with the ranks of their priesthood riddled wth child molesters. What do you suppose my agenda is by mentioning this?
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Post by rizdek on Feb 1, 2019 11:07:37 GMT
I did in my rsp...and I noted that maybe the reason the RCC is being a bit more progressive is that they learned a tough lesson. Good on them! It took them a while to learn it. Formally it took 359 years to reverse themselves. Finally, what took you so long?Well, I hope the embarrassment of that delay will compel them to be more progressive.
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Feb 1, 2019 11:11:27 GMT
Well, I hope the embarrassment of that delay will compel them to be more progressive. They're going to be so "progressive" in the coming years that it will spin your head around.
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Post by Stammerhead on Feb 1, 2019 12:23:01 GMT
I’m more of an agnostic and so have not issue with this but apparently certain theists have a problem with accepting the possibility that non-believers can be intelligent.
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Post by general313 on Feb 1, 2019 15:22:59 GMT
I did in my rsp...and I noted that maybe the reason the RCC is being a bit more progressive is that they learned a tough lesson. Good on them! It took them a while to learn it. Formally it took 359 years to reverse themselves. Finally, what took you so long?"The committee decided the Inquisition had acted in good faith, but was wrong." If that's the best that good faith can do, we better find something else to guide us.
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Post by goz on Feb 1, 2019 20:30:42 GMT
Well, I hope the embarrassment of that delay will compel them to be more progressive. They're going to be so "progressive" in the coming years that it will spin your head around. ...and you know this how?
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Feb 1, 2019 21:57:13 GMT
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Post by goz on Feb 1, 2019 22:05:25 GMT
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Feb 1, 2019 22:13:26 GMT
There's plenty more where that came from. Read this one. You might even learn something, but I doubt it. The One World Religion
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