ringo:
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I don't think you do. It isn't a choice so much as acknowledging the elephant in the room. It isn't a matter of wanting a "substitute" for religion. On the contrary, religion has always been a substitute for real knowledge.
"Religion has always been a substitute for real knowledge."
This is the Biggest of the Big Lies touted by atheists, by far.
Galileo was a devout Catholic.
Galileo Galilei (Italian pronunciation: [ɡaliˈlɛːo ɡaliˈlɛi]; 15 February 1564[4] — 8 January 1642),[1][5] commonly known as Galileo, was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations, and support for Copernicanism. Galileo has been called the "father of modern observational astronomy",[6] the "father of modern physics",[7] the "father of science",[7] and "the Father of Modern Science".[8] Stephen Hawking says, "Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science."[9]
Does this sound to you like "a substitute for real knowledge"?
Copernicus was a Catholic priest.
Nicolaus Copernicus (Polish: Mikołaj Kopernik; German: Nikolaus Kopernikus; in his youth, Niclas Koppernigk;[1] Italian: Nicol Copernico; 19 February 1473 — 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance astronomer, priest[2][3][4] and the first person to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology, which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe.[5]
Copernicus' epochal book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), published just before his death in 1543, is often regarded as the starting point of modern astronomy and the defining epiphany that began the scientific revolution. His heliocentric model, with the Sun at the center of the universe, demonstrated that the observed motions of celestial objects can be explained without putting Earth at rest in the center of the universe. His work stimulated further scientific investigations, becoming a landmark in the history of science that is often referred to as the Copernican Revolution.
Was the Copernican Revolution "a substitute for real knowledge"?
Isaac Newton penned "the most important scientific book ever written".
Does that sound to you like "a substitute for real knowledge"?
Sir Isaac Newton FRS (4 January 1643 — 31 March 1727 [OS: 25 December 1642 — 20 March 1726])[1] was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian, and is considered by many scholars and members of the general public to be one of the most influential people in human history. His Philosophi Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Latin for "Mathematical Principles Of Natural Philosophy"; usually called the Principia), published in 1687, is probably the most important scientific book ever written. It lays the groundwork for most of classical mechanics. In this work, Newton described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion, which dominated the scientific view of the physical universe for the next three centuries. Newton showed that the motions of objects on Earth and of celestial bodies are governed by the same set of natural laws, by demonstrating the consistency between Kepler's laws of planetary motion and his theory of gravitation; thus removing the last doubts about heliocentrism and advancing the Scientific Revolution.
One day as Newton was turning his model of the solar system, an atheist friend of his came into Newton's workshop and marveled at the beautiful planets turning under Newton's guidance.
"Did you build that?" he asked Newton.
Newton replied, "No it built itself."
Now we may expect the excuses from the godless set that these scholars were all Christians, men of God, because that was virtually a necessity back then. But this begs the question of religion being antithetical to "real knowledge." Moreover, there are hundreds of millions of enlightened Christians today. That a disproportionate number of scholars have been brainwashed by the liberal public education system in no way establishes the pretenses of the godless left's claim to exclusive rights to "real knowledge" as opposed to what I suppose ringo would characterize as "unreal knowledge."
Truth and knowledge are not functions of how many people comprehend them. As S. Fred Singer says in his book,
Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1500 Years :
"Galileo may have been the only man of his day who believed the earth revolved around the sun, but he was right! "
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