Atheists, did you not realize a Catholic priest wrote the scientific method?

Question

Bishop Robert Grosseteste

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Grosseteste

"Grosseteste is best known as an original thinker for his work concerning what would today be called science or the scientific method.

From about 1220 to 1235 he wrote a host of scientific treatises including:

De sphera. An introductory text on astronomy.
De luce. On the "metaphysics of light." (which is the most original work of cosmogony in the Latin West)
De accessu et recessu maris. On tides and tidal movements. (although some scholars dispute his authorship)
De lineis, angulis et figuris. Mathematical reasoning in the natural sciences.
De iride. On the rainbow."

Answer 1

Why are you so fixated on this?



So you are not worshiping god or Jesus and you are building a new religion around worshipping scientists!



And you try to criticise atheists?!

Answer 2

Did you know? The Catholic Church did not accept the concept of a heliocentric universe (Sun-centered) until 1992, about 300 years after Nicolaus Copernicus introduced his scientific discovery, even after Galileo and several other astronomers backed Copernicus' findings with factual evidence. That means it wasn't until 21 years ago that the Catholic Church accepted the proven fact that the Sun was the center of our galaxy.



We could be at this for days, bashing at each other. What's the point? I am Catholic too, but singling out Atheists and bragging isn't nice nor is it going to get you anywhere. Everyone has flaws (yes, even the almighty Catholic Church sweetie). Let's think twice before you decide you're all that.

Answer 3

This is a question you asked yesterday -



I'm writing a paper for history class, can someone name some famous Jewish inventors?



Not only are you a liar (history class indeed), but you thought no one would get what you were really saying...and listen, genius, Einstein wasn't an "inventor" - he was a physicist who discovered General and Special Relativity - he didn't invent them. And I knew you weren't going to respond when I answered that question because you're a coward. I told you not to mess with the Jews; I meant it.

Answer 4

Yes, I was aware of it--in a different time in history the same man may have had completely different ideas about religion etc. I'm not sure what point you are trying to make. Gregor Mendel laid the groundwork for genetics--the fact that he was a religious man doesn't really mean much.

Answer 5

And I should care why exactly?

Sheesh...



Big Bang was proposed by a Catholic Priest.

Charlie Darwin was gonna train as a minister.



I do NOT care where knowledge comes from.

Knowledge is knowledge...



BUT your superstitious nonsense about gods, virgin births and talking snakes and donkeys will ALWAYS be pathetic mind-numbing büllshït...

Xin loi about that baby.

~

Answer 6

To the best of my knowledge, the first people to implement the scientific method in an organised and consistent way was the Royal Society of London, many of whom were Freemasons. Formed in late1660, their motto is "Nullius in verba" which might be translated as "take nobody's word for it".



This motto might well be applied to the content of your questions.

Answer 7

"Wrote it?"



No.



Mixed in with some of his metaphysical/superstitious nonsense, he also did some decent reasoning, and was ONE of many people who contributed to ideas about the "scientific method."



As I've pointed out constantly to you, even religious people can do decent science using reason and logic and the scientific method. What they *can't* do, is do decent science using religion.

Answer 8

And your point is? So he came up with a method that works and lets us find out how the universe works. Too bad he didn't apply it to his belief system. But then again, he would have been killed for heresy - another act of Christian love.

Answer 9

Science and religion are becoming more and more linked. The more we learn about quantum physics, the more we see a similarity to spiritual thought.

Answer 10

And the scientific method consistently disproves religious dogma. There is no paradox or inconsistency; an individual priest is not representative of an entire religion.

Answer 11

That's great that Christians were on the leading edge of scientific advancement 800 years ago.



What happened to them? Why did they get passed up?

Answer 12

That's cool. However, he did not use the scientific method to determine the veracity of his religious claims, so what's your point? Prove God exists via the scientific method. I can wait.

Answer 13

Does not matter to me. He was most likely a closeted atheist.



Did you know there is a group for religious leaders who are also atheist? The number of them are growing.



http://www.clergyproject.org/

Answer 14

people don't care i have heard of this many times relgion was diffrent back then it was frowned upon way more to be athiest back then

Answer 15

so? everyone back then said they were a believer or they were killed.



and, it's the message, not the messenger, that's important

Answer 16

Yes, but intelligent people learned how to use it.

Answer 17

Actually it was started by Aristotle. Catholics are notorious for stealing other people's ideas and claiming they were their own.