WOTM: Stop The Steal, Part V
In part five we really get into the nuttiness of Tom Holland's claims. Apparently, you can't have science without Christianity. Science is somehow utterly dependent on... Jesus? Someone needs to travel back in time and tell this to the ancient Greeks (the Chinese, the Persians, Romans, Egyptians, etc...). And here's where my friend, PhD in ancient history, Richard Carrier, comes in. I know many people are aware of his mythicism, but his work on questions like this is essential to keeping this nonsense where it belongs — with the genuinely ignorant. I'll put links to his work in the description later. Still trying to finish this final video. — with only 3 hours and 15 minutes left!!! Can I do it? You'll see... or not.
Thanks again gang! I'm so grateful that your continued support has enabled me to make... all of the videos I post here — but these six in particular. I'd give you my firstborn, but she's off on her own, married, with an adorable two year old kid already. I don't think she'll give up the kid either. If you're in the neighborhood, I'll wash your car. How 'bout that? Enjoy! B
Comments (10)
Yes, we are indebted to the Muslims as well. In particular, for preserving so many of the Greek and Roman manuscripts. The Greeks had their own form of algebra and had actually developed at treatment, using a very thin needle, for cataracts. Ancient learning was quite abundant!
The Muslims go one better, they say the science is all right there in their holy book! Which forces me to ask why they waited for scientists to discover all that science before they announced it was there? I mean, they had all these scientific advancements that could have helped save countless people, and withheld it! Was it a prank?
Actually, it was the Muslims that kept the Greek scientific knowledge alive until it could be rediscovered by scholars in Moorish Spain in the 14 and 1500's and kicked off the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. Plus we have them to thank for their work in optics (they figured out that the eye is the receiver of light, not its source), math (algebra is a word that comes from Arabic), our system of numbers, distillation and a host of other topics.
Wikipedia: “The Dark Ages is a term for the Early Middle Ages or occasionally the entire Middle Ages, in Western Europe after the fall of the Western Roman Empire that characterises it as marked by economic, intellectual, and cultural decline.”
A few years ago, when a Sunday school teacher had just proclaimed to the class that Christianity gave us Newtonian gravitational mechanics, I told him I learned in college astronomy 101 that our Milky Way spiral galaxy was 10k light years deep and 100k light years wide. The “teacher” was a young earth creationist who immediately suffered from terminal cognitive dissonance. He stared at me blankly for an uncomfortable minute, then meekly replied that he was only regurgitating course material. That was the last time I attended the class.
Fascinating
Gawd, I just can't take Tommy's stupidity. For the majority of its existence, christianity knew very well the age of the earth, how and when animals and humans originated, etc., etc., so… who needed "science" to investigate and draw factual, verifiable, reliable, concrete, empirical conclusions?
Can't join you in endorsement of carrier. His personal attacks of Bart Ehrman are unforgivable to me.
Tell me about that. I know nothing of it.
I can’t wait to see the final version of this edition. But I did have a thought: those ancient Greeks were ahead of some of our contemporaries in their science knowledge. THEY knew the earth was round not flat. Great series!!