Religion has been blamed for putting us 400 years behind in technology.?

[G.I.R]

I don't remember who but in a book the first person who discovered the atom. was killed and all his research burned because religion people didn't believe in science.

400 years later a second person discovered the atom and it stuck and eventually grew to todays technology. Should we blame religion for putting us so far behind.
it was in the history books. and a few science books. I just can't name the guy off the top of my head.
Isaac Newton was the second guy who discovered it, 400 years after a greek scientest did.

[mrzwink]

well kinda. yes. if it wasnt for church towers and their clocks the dark ages would have made us forget all our knowledge of mechanics.

[Rallie Florencio C]

Most scientist in the early periods are Religious people. The only persecuted are those who they think are threat to their lies. Most inventions went through.

[Follower of the A & ?]

WHATT??!??!?

Isaac Newton lived in about 1500 AD, and the Greek Empire was in 500 BC. 2000 years apart!!! Christianity wasn't even around in 500 BC!!!


Greek Philosophers thought of the Atom in Athens over 2500 Years ago, and the teaching went to Rome, but the knowledge was destroyed when Rome fell to the Barbarians in 476 AD, so should we blame the Barbarians for putting us 2,500 Years behind?

FYI, Isaac Newton didn't discover the Atom.

Also, Brontosaurus is a Apatosaurus with a Camarasaurus head incorrectly placed on it. Nice Find!

[thakiddannyy]

It was Isaac Newton. Dont know if somebody discovered it before us. Religion is not to blame. Christianity is to blame.

[Abby]

oh i rember that acctually many religous people do the scientif stuff they do belive in like a lot of scientif theores except not the BIG BANG and all that evoulution bulll shark but they do belive in the gravataional pull and all the newtons law of motion etc... the part they dont belive in is the evolution part