Theology has nothing to do with science. There are what might be called pre-scientific thinking as a branch of philosophy. Science though came about from the ideas of Roger Bacon and were applied and firmed up by Galileo. Theology predates that by centuries. I would say Christian theology came about with Augustine in the early 5th century. It is reasonable to say that science emerged from philosophy combined with the practical arts such as metallurgy, glass making, tool making and so forth. There were some pre-scientists, Greeks such as a Democritus and medieval scholars such as Oresme and Grosseteste did some attempts at science, but they did not have the discipline with empiricism quite right. This was emerging as a branch of philosophy. Theology predated medieval pre-science by centuries.
LC On Monday, May 4, 2020 at 4:00:54 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: > > > > On 5/4/2020 4:12 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > I might disagree. Especially if you keep in mind that theology ws born > > as a science, before becoming an institionised oppression system, when > > separated from science for that purpose. > > Yes, it was born as explanation for natural phenomena in terms of human > emotions, because human emotion was directly experienced and seemed to > need no explanation. So when a storm was explained as the sky became > angry that seemed easy to believe and one had only to discern why the > sky was angry. The priest or chief or your mother explained it was > because you didn't sacrifice a goat to him, or you disobeyed a rule, or > you didn't eat your spinach. But there were many phenomena. Monotheism > simplified the system and provided one-stop shopping...as soon as a few > wars and inquisitions settled which one God was the really real one. > > Brent > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/380ab766-1e4f-4e30-b6e9-fdda29d50f14%40googlegroups.com.
