If you get your philosophy from comedians, dont be surprised if its a joke! via Philosophical Theist: //Good actor, bad historian. No single war has killed more people than religion? Lets consult some legitimate authorities on the subject, how about Rudolph Rummel (professor emeritus of political science at the University of Hawaii): Religion was a major cause of war was in Europe and the Islamic Empire during the Middle Ages. But even then, wars were being fought elsewhere in the world for other reasons, such as in Asia. In recent centuries, religion has been simply one minor cause among others for some minor wars. Major causes of major wars have been conflict over territory, ethnic grievances, honor, greed, and power. There was no religious component to World Wars I and II, nor the Korean and Vietnam Wars. However, the current war on terror has a fundamentalist Islamic aspect to it, but it is not one religion pitted against another, but fundamentalist Islam against the freedom and values of democratic countries.[1] Religion set science back by a 1000 years? the very notion of physical law is a theological one in the first place, a fact that makes many scientists squirm. Isaac Newton first got the idea of absolute, universal, perfect, immutable laws from the Christian doctrine that God created the world and ordered it in a rational way.[2] “No institution or cultural force of the patristic period offered more encouragement for the investigation of nature than did the Christian church.”[3] The very possibility of applied mathematics is an expression . . . of the Christian belief that nature is the creation of an omnipotent God.[4] faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology.[5] The experimental method succeeded beyond mans wildest dreams but the faith that brought it into being owes something to the Christian conception of the nature of God.[6] The thought that all the phenomena of motion should follow from one set of principles might seem grandiose and inordinate, but it occurred very naturally to the religious mathematicians of the 17th century. God had designed the universe, and it was to be expected that all phenomena of nature would follow one master plan. One mind designing a universe would almost surely have employed one set of basic principles to govern related phenomena.[7] Our monotheistic traditions reinforce the assumption that the Universe is at root a unity, that it is not governed by different legislation in different places.[8] References: 1. hawaii.edu/powerkills/QA.V2.HTML#statistics 2. nytimes/2007/11/24/opinion/24davies.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 3. David C. Lindberg--Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion (Harvard University Press 2009) 4. R.G. Collingwood, “An Essay on metaphysics” 5. Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World (1925) 6. Loren Eiseley: Darwin’s Century: Evolution and the Men who Discovered It, Doubleday, Anchor, New York (1961) 7. Morris Kline, Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty, Oxford University Press 1980, p. 52. 8. John D. Barrow, Oxford University Press; Reprint edition (November 12, 2008)//
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