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In reply to the discussion: The Problem with Religious Moderates [View all]JKingman
(75 posts)the few hundreds, perhaps few thousands of scientists, (astronomers), mathematicians, and engineers who studied the physics and nature of the physical world and learned much that was NOT about the spiritual.
Are we forgetting that modern medicine developed much later than the inventions of the first clocks, and later than the re-introduction of very old architectural principles which had been employed by Greeks and Romans centuries before Christ was born? During the times of the late middle-ages, and at the birth of the European Renaissance, most illnesses were still ascribed by Christians to the work of the devil, or to bad character.
I might also point out that the astronomers of the times of the Stonehenge, (around 1500-2000BC) and the work of Egyptian pyramid builders more than a thousand years earlier than the Stonehenge took into account the seasons and the motion of the sunrises and sunsets throughout the skies during a "year".
So inquisitive minds, and minds of logic, reason, recorders and historians and artists and craftsmen and engineers and inventors have been around long before and long outside of the Judeo-Christian period. One realm (that of reason and logic and hard work and discovery), does not necessarily intersect with the spiritual thinkers and proponents of religions. They may come together in a certain historical epoch or time, but there is no causal relationship between the two realms.