The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason

This book, by Charles Freeman, is a warning to us all that we should not take scientific and intellectual pursuit and discovery for granted.

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"It is perhaps particularly unfortunate that the silencing of debate extended beyond the spiritual and across the whole Greek intellectual tradition. The effects Paul's condemnation of 'the philosophers' could not have been put more clearly than by John Chrysostom, an enthusiastic follower of Paul. 'Restrain our own reasoning, and empty our mind of secular learning, in order to provide a mind swept clear for the reception of divine words.' Basil echoes him: 'Let us Christian prefer the simplicity of our faith to the demonstration of human reason ...' "

Read the rest of this page and be worried about modern government disdain for science and, more importantly, the scientific method. And, the Bush cabal's political needs to discount and, to some extent, vilify them.