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https://www.interfaith.org/community/threads/8966/ A wonderful follow up I had completely forgotten.

I'd never heard of Aristotelian 10 Categories. Definitely more involved than what I want to get into right now. Scholasticism basically led right into the current "science is the ONLY way to look at the world" attitude that prevails, at least in the West. This doesn't surprise, I've traced...

Earlier I said: I found this: wiki: Renaissance humanism - Wikipedia The 95 theses on the door of the Church in Wittenburg was in 1517, so the "Christians" were by default Catholic. There's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholasticism

Just another in a long, long list of scientific speculations without evidence....(that must be taken on faith to be intelligent, or so some would like us to believe)

So, apparently, do many of the presumptions and guesses in science. If one does not believe in current science, according to you, they are unintelligent. One must ascribe to the faith of science to be intelligent even when there is zero evidence. From my perspective that is such a religious...

Jerome of Stridon and the Latin Vulgate "Jerome was a scholar at a time when that statement implied a fluency in Greek. He knew some Hebrew when he started his translation project, but moved to Jerusalem to strengthen his grip on Jewish scripture commentary. A wealthy Roman aristocrat, Paula...

What you write here has crossed my mind in the past. The only other thing I can offer is Ergot. Spoiled grain produces an LSD-like component, which is implicated in both the French Revolution and the Salem Witch trials. Improper storage could have easily led to contaminated grain. Yes...

https://www.interfaith.org/community/threads/19707/post-391456 Interesting post regarding cross breeding among archaic homo

"To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote," -Benjamin Franklin

Sorry, but that is a false dichotomy

So the "progressive" Jews were already amalgamating with Greco-Roman ideologies, why would it seem strange for the Christians to do the same? Indeed, from this perspective, and looking at the Church Fathers, it would be more intriguing if there was not some form of amalgamation. emphasis...

It was also not uncommon for various Pagan traditions to bounce ideas off one another, so there were some amalgams of Latin/Greek/Egyptian/Persian/Iberian and who knows what else religions and philosophies, and into this mix is thrust a major Jewish migration and simultaneously a smaller but...

post 89: Rome in transition Going back through this thread because I am heavily invested, I see again this post by @China Cat Sunflower. I haven't heard from Chris in years, I hope he and his family are doing well. This is from 2008, here we are now in 2024, so what...16 years later if my...

Thank you, I do what I can. I'm an enabler that way... ;)

I think as with all things, balance and moderation are required. The United States' Founding Fathers knew the people must be G!d fearing, or this experiment in governance would eventually fail. Even Thomas Jefferson, well known for his personal edit of the New Testament, believed in a Creator...

Indeed, however Valla was not the first Catholic monk humanist, by the same Wiki reference. Needless to say, that alone caught me off guard. Desecration of the man's tomb seems to me an excessive overreaction, but that kind of thing was pretty common back then. I'm reminded of Constantine...

Indeed. Doesn't prove your claim, however. It stands there is no causal association between harnessing fire and the shrinkage of the human incisor.

"they say" There's a lot of that going around... Sounds precisely like faith to me. I suppose that makes you irrational, too. Welcome to the club.

Yes, but that's not the point.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ancient-teeth-reveal-our-roots-180969495/ This article calls your association between shrinking incisors and taming of fire as bunk, Erectus' incisors were already shrinking. So prove otherwise and back up your claim that incisors shrank with the...