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Re:The Great Ptolemaic Smackdown: From Plausible to Proven by shjake on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @02:51AM (#35958469)
> Sure... and they were wrong.

They weren’t. Theology was the primary (pseudo)scientific approach used to explain the law of nature at the time.

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Re:The Great Ptolemaic Smackdown: From Plausible to Proven by kerkeslager on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @03:42PM (#35966752)
The primary (pseudo)scientific approach used to explain the law of nature at the time was wrong. And remains wrong, which is why I'm willing to die on this hill--this ideology is still harming us today.
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Re:The Great Ptolemaic Smackdown: From Plausible to Proven by shjake on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @04:31AM (#35972638)
I disagree it laid the foundations for modern scientific thought.

It couldn’t have developed the way it did without theology and the Catholic church..

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