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How to Break Through Your Creative Block: Strategies from 90 of Today's Most Exciting C... - 0 views

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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.
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  • 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,
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