The Like/Hate Thread

[Orion]

Actually, the rise of Christianity did play an important role in destabilizing the late Roman Empire and helping usher it toward its inevitable collapse. >_>;

True, but many of the fathers of modern science were Christian and used their cosmological understanding of the universe as declared by the Bible to assist them. If I can find my examples on my PC I'll put them up, however I do recall that the Big Bang theory met heavy resistance from atheist scientists at the time because it presupposed a "beginning" of existence, which didn't fit well with metaphysical conceptions.