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Lisa Halverson

Matt J. Rossano: How the Myth of the Flat-Earth Dogma Started the Religion-Science War - 0 views

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  • Lactantius was a fourth-century pagan convert to Christianity who took particular delight in arguing against pretty much everything any pagan philosopher ever said, including that the earth was round.
  • Cosmas Indicopleustes
  • tealthily misrepresent a few church fathers as flat-earthers (Basil, Chrysostom) and to argue that the non-flat-earthers were a few brave soles swimming against a colossal tide.
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  • rigen, Ambrose, Augustine, Clement, and Aquinas
  • . It was a classic fight of good vs. evil, progress vs. regress, ignorance vs. enlightenment -- just what the papers needed to sell copy
  • There never was a flat earth dogma
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  • They fabricated a false history highlighted by a non-existent dogma and used them to brand religion as unceasingly reactionary, dim-witted, and anti-science.
  • Claiming that science and religion have known only unrelenting warfare betrays one's ignorance of history and possibly one's social/political agenda.
  • tarting a war on false pretenses is nothing new. But when a few nineteenth-century academicians declared a science-vs.-religion war, they did us all a disservice.
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  • Christianity was currently opposing progress because it has always been an impediment to science, reason, and progress. An especially egregious example of this was the Church's insistence on a flat earth,
anonymous

Ptolemy's Almagest - 0 views

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Ptolemy Almagest Geocentric Earth Astronomy Greek 13 Greece

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  • anonymous on 24 Sep 12
     
    This is a video of Claudius Ptolemy's theories on the motion of the universe. Although Ptolemy had a geocentric view of the universe, he was able to accurately predict where any planet would be at any time and day.
Whitney Rauckhorst

Stele of King Hammurabi - 0 views

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shared by Whitney Rauckhorst on 10 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Whitney Rauckhorst on 24 Oct 12
     
    Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker Hammurabi: The king who made the four quarters of the earth obedient The second millennium's beginning is characterized by the rise of two warring city states, Isin and Larsa, a competition which Isin loses, conquered by Rim-Sin 1822-1763 B.C.E.
Sam Rockwood

Gabriel - 0 views

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shared by Sam Rockwood on 02 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Sam Rockwood on 02 Oct 12
     
    If it doesn't work, then try this:Gabriel's MOMENT. By: Tompkins, Ptolemy, Angels on Earth, 10823107, Nov/Dec2007, Vol. 13, Issue 2
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