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Romans Influence Of Religion

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“Romans 2:8 : but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.” This is a quote from the bible about seeking truth. The church has always claimed to stand behind the truth, but have they stood for their version of biblical truth, which often stands in the face of new scientific evidence. There have been many times throughout history where religion has impeded the progression of science. A few of these instances include: the destruction of the Library of Alexandria which occurred as a result of the spread of Christianity, the Catholic Church’s rejection of Galileo’s theories, and the religious community's rejection of Charles Darwin’s theories of evolution.
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As a result, Emperor Theodosius aspired to eliminate all traces of paganism in the Empire. He ordered the destruction of every temple in Alexandria including the Serapeum which was an extension of the Great Library. The army of Romans emptied the bookshelves and destroyed the Serapeum “to its foundations” (El-Abbadi). Hundreds of years of knowledge, innovations, and discoveries were lost when the Romans pillaged Alexandria. The Romans, under the influence of Christianity, chose religion over preserving knowledge and science. After the collapse of Alexandria, there was a scarcity of innovation and knowledge in the world for over a thousand years. As Carl Sagan described it “the West slumbered through a thousand years of darkness until Columbus and Copernicus and their contemporaries rediscovered the work done in …show more content…

While observing the earth’s tide, Galileo deduced- using his extensive knowledge of physics – that there was no way that the Earth was the center of the universe. Galileo thought that the tides were caused by the Earth's revolution around the sun as well as its rotation on its axis. He asserted that the traceable movement of the tides was evidence of his heliocentric theory. Ironically, Galileo’s theory of tides was wrong, as the moon actually controls the tide, but it invariably lead him to explore the possibility of a heliocentric model.
This became Galileo’s passion project. It was the culmination of what he had been studying for a long time. All the research he had done with regards to the physics of our expansive universe humbled him to the realization that our tiny planet is not in fact the center of the universe. Galileo realized that the Earth was just another spinning ball of confusion that no one understands. When the church caught whiff of this, they believed him to be a

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