The Catholic Church: Builder of Civilization, The Church and Science Ep 2 [Part 2]

EWTN's series on the Catholic Chuch, hosted by Dr. Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

The scientific world owes much of its discoveries to knowledgeable Catholic monks and priests.

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[Beaconsfielder]

@nuntym

Another ironic thing told my Prof. in philosophie of religion. He asked some important muslims, how it cold be that on the one hand Allah is allmighty and that no man can imagine his power and his will and in the other hand, that the Quran is the whole will of Allah - and this in a human language. He did it at different meetings - and till today he have never gotten an answer.

[TheWyldeGoose]

@bayreuth79 I would say that St. Thomas Aquinas answered that question in the Summa Theologica quite sufficiently, but the thing is why would the Mongol Conquests do-in Islamic Science? I mean, many Mongols converted, and established new Islamic nations as a result, If Islamic Science were so sound, it should've survived quite well. Instead, it remains stagnant in so much because Islam isn't really interested in Human progress and understanding of the natural world.

[bayreuth79]

Mr Woods' comment about Islam is an oversimplification. In the medieval period there was a great deal of disagreement about whether the universe possesses secondary causality. Averroes (for example) seemed to think that there was; but unfortunately it was al-Ghazali who won the debate with his "Tahafut al-Falasifah" in which he denied secondary causes, reserving the privilege of causality to God alone. However, some historians argue that it was the Mongul raids that did for Islamic science...

[nuntym]

It's kinda ironic...Islamic theology gives Allah absolute autonomy over the natural laws, yet insists that Allah cannot be Jesus because it would have been beneath his dignity to be in the form of man.