{"id":1875,"date":"2013-11-14T22:00:51","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T05:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/?p=1875"},"modified":"2013-11-14T22:00:51","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T05:00:51","slug":"some-mythical-conflicts-between-science-and-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/some-mythical-conflicts-between-science-and-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Mythical Conflicts between Science and Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple posts elsewhere refuting a common <a title=\"Medieval Bashing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/medieval-bashing\/\">Medieval-bashing<\/a> trope, that the Medieval Church tried to suppress scientific ideas, in a series of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangenotions.com\/debunking-the-mythical-conflict\/\">mythical conflicts between Science and Religion<\/a>, by historian of Science St. James Hannam.<\/p>\n<p>On the same site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangenotions.com\/gods-philosophers\/\">Tim O&#8217; Neill<\/a> writes some further commentary along the same lines, in the course of reviewing Hannam&#8217;s book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1848311508\/\">God&#8217;s Philosophers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, even if stupid religious people had been persecuting scientists for the last fourteen millennia, it wouldn&#8217;t make the least bit of difference to the question of whether the two sets of ideas are compatible.\u00a0 That is a philosophical, not a historical question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple posts elsewhere refuting a common Medieval-bashing trope, that the Medieval Church tried to suppress scientific ideas, in a series of mythical conflicts between Science and Religion, by historian of Science St. James Hannam. On the same site, Tim O&#8217; Neill writes some further commentary along the same lines, in the course of reviewing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-links","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1875"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1878,"href":"https:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875\/revisions\/1878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}