[shjake]

> Sure... and they were wrong.

They weren’t. Theology was the primary (pseudo)scientific approach used to explain the law of nature at the time.

[kerkeslager]

The primary (pseudo)scientific approach used to explain the law of nature at the time was wrong. And remains wrong, which is why I'm willing to die on this hill--this ideology is still harming us today.

[shjake]

I disagree it laid the foundations for modern scientific thought.

It couldn’t have developed the way it did without theology and the Catholic church..