Re:Artificial Intelligence and Peace
by DagsEoress on Thursday February 01, 2024 @02:40PM
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Many people forget (or never knew) that Catholicism / Christianity basically kickstarted modern science. A large misconception is that Christianity and Science can't coexist. When in reality they amplify each other.
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Re:Artificial Intelligence and Peace
by sapientiae3 on Thursday February 01, 2024 @03:52PM
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One of my favourite stories is of George Lemaître who came up with the Big Bang theory, and predicted the Higgs Boson - while Steven Hawkins bet against it, and was proved wrong.
George Lemaître was a Catholic Priest.
There is a wonderful (if lengthy) takedown of the "Brave scientist Galileo vs Catholic Church" myth here: http://tofspot.blogspot.com/2013/10/9-great-ptolemaic-smackd...
They didn't do very well by Giordano Bruno though who proposed that the stars were distant suns surrounded by their own planets and got burned at the stake.
I'm a bit late responding to this, but I believe this is false, and that his cosmological beliefs had nothing to do with his fate:
https://www.ncregister.com/blog/the-truth-about-giordano-bru...