Christianity
Provided the Foundation for
Science Through the Ages
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Author: Roger A. Richards, Jr. |
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Christianity provided the foundation for science through the ages
Published Sept. 4, 2004 in The Adirondack Journal, p. 3, Warrensburg, NY.
Most of us dislike any authority suppressing the truth for any reason and of
such scandals are born. Yet, Lenin said that a lie told often enough
becomes the truth. Skeptics and atheists have excelled in both.
Romans 1:18 (NKJV) says they "suppress the truth in unrighteousness."
Dr. Rodney Stark, Professor of sociology and comparative religions at the Univ.
of Washington uncovers all this in his book "For The Glory of God"
through tedious research into original, historical documents.
For those of us who studied unrevised history (or so we thought), the latest
texts as compared to what actually happened, are shocking. The average
kid in class, however, just learns it. So let's take a little True or
False quiz:
1. In 1492 Christopher Columbus proved the world was round, yet faced years of
opposition from ministers and churches who believed the world flat.
2. Magellan gained a victory for science by sailing round the earth, disproving all those ministers.
3. The Dark ages were caused by religion and were a time of superstition and technological regress.
4. The Greeks and Romans invented science and advanced scientific thinking greatly.
5. Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo and Newton fought against the church to air
their new ideas.
6. The age of humanism brought us the enlightenment through science wrought by
daring skeptics of the Bible.
7. The human body has many organs such as the coccyx (tailbone), appendix and
tonsils that are vestigial or
left over from our "primitive" state.
The answer to all seven is 'false'. Andrew White, founder of Cornell, in
a two volume treatise 'A History of the Warfare of Science and Theology in
Christendom' put forth many of these lies in order to attack the faith.
Almost all ministers at the time of Columbus knew the earth was round.
Copernicus did not discover that the earth revolved on its axis, he was taught
it in his Christian university. He discovered the math to show that it
was so.
There is no such thing as the Dark Ages as we were taught it.
Technological progress continued to greatly advance from 400-1600 AD with great
advances in outfitting horses, weapons, & manufacturing.
Christianity provided the foundation for science to develop where the Greek,
Roman and Asian cultures could not. Stark says "It is the consensus
among contemporary historians, philosophers and sociologists of science that
real science arose only once: in Europe. The leading scientific figures
in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were overwhelmingly devout
Christians who believed it their duty to comprehend God's handiwork."
Why there? Stark's answer is simple; "The Christian God was
rational, responsive, dependable and omnipotent and the universe was His
personal creation in which His divine nature was put on display for man's
benefit and instruction." Prov. 25:2 "It is the glory of God to
conceal a matter, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter".
Isaiah 40:12 "Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, measured
heaven with a span
and calculated the dust of earth in a measure? Weighed the mountains in
scales and the hills in a balance?"
Stark researched leading scientists from 1543 to 1680 and found that of the top
52, one was a skeptic, one a pantheist and 50 were Christians, 30 of whom could
be characterized as devout because of their zeal. Why so many lies from
the skeptics? To rid society of what they considered a menace; religion
and the Christian faith in particular and to cause doubt in the Bible to erode
away the faith so that even if one doesn't forsake it, they'll be weaker and
maybe their kids or grandkids will leave it. Darwin's own letters to
fellow skeptic bear this out. No wonder the New Testament admonishes
believers in 1 Corinthians 15:58 to ".be steadfast, immovable, always
abounding in the work of the Lord.".
Dr. Stark says that the obvious flaw in Darwinism is that "it falls
notably short of explaining the origin of species'. Further, he says
"When Julian Huxley claimed that "Darwin's theory is no longer a
theory but a fact," he surely knew better. But just like his
grandfather, Thomas Henry Huxley, he knew that his lie served the greater good
of "enlightenment" (p. 185). One of many lies told in skeptic's
frantic scramble to prove Darwin right was that the body has many organs left
over from when we were monkeys. At the turn of the century evolutionists
had conjured up over a hundred which have since dwindled to zero. Without
the coccyx you would dump in your pants.
Without the tonsils or appendix you will be far more prone to disease and less
able to fight things like the negative effects of radiation. During
development the appendix has also been shown to have a vital function as
well. Yes, we can live without them, but as with our eyes, arms and
gallbladder, we live better with all intact as designed. Speaking of
which:
"Creation (intelligent) design" was described by a molecular
biologist in an interview with columnist George Caylor in an article titled
"The Biologist" (2/17/2000, The Ledger, Lynchburg, VA) as ".an
elephant in the living room. It moves around, takes up an enormous amount of
space, loudly trumpets, bumps into us, knocks things over, eats a ton of hay,
and smells like an elephant. And yet we have to swear it isn't
there." When asked if the information found in the cell's gene code
evolved, he said "George, nobody I know in my profession believes it
evolved. It was engineered by genius beyond genius, and such information
could not have been written in any other way. The paper and ink did not
write the book. Knowing what we know, it is ridiculous to think
otherwise." Small wonder for they've discovered in bacteria a
mind-boggling array of sophisticated machines and computer systems light years
ahead of our own. So scientists publicly deny intelligent design exists,
yet affirm evolution, which they know to be false because to admit design and
deny evolution is to commit academic and career suicide.
Polls show 60% of scientists are atheists, but 40% acknowledge a supernatural
power. The founders of every major branch of science were overwhelmingly
biblical creationists, as are thousands of practicing scientists today and from
every scientific field. Their stories are quite similar. Each knew
their own field proved evolution a lie, yet assumed other fields verified
it. When they questioned scientists from other fields they were shocked
to find the same was true in all of them! And now the elephants are
beginning to break down the gates.
Roger Richards
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