re: #90 dmandman

What most people don’t know (they weren’t taught it because it shows some people of faith as being sane) was archeology and geology were started in their modern forms by Academics of Theological Institutions that couldn’t make sense of the data. They were confronted with books of faith that stated one thing, but the physical evidence that they observed showed something different. Modern science took of in the Western world because these people just had to find out how they were getting it wrong (after all their books of faith had spelled everything out so well). Eventually, they reached a point where they had too much contrary evidence and as true men of faith they came to conclusion that maybe things were a bit beyond their current understanding. If you read the early writings by Newton and the others they very eloquently described how religious writing are intended as instructional allegory and not confuse Science as teaching of morality. They both (in their arguments) had equal value and the concept of a liberal (note the small L) education was formed. Creationists and their ilk don’t get it, Darwin doesn’t talk morality just how and what was observed. Another way to put it is who am I to tell god how and when to do his job, just watch and be amazed.

Well, yeah. After the church burned/imprisoned a few (hunedred/thousands?) for heresy.