Did many science contribution came from Catholics? (retort to an answer)?

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To the one who answered  that in my earlier question.

IN THE winter of 1609/10, Galileo Galilei turned his newly developed telescope toward the heavens and discovered four moons circling the planet Jupiter. What he saw shattered the prevailing notion that all heavenly bodies must orbit the earth. Earlier, in 1543, the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus had theorized that the planets revolve around the sun. Galileo verified that this was scientific truth.

To Catholic theologians, however, this was heresy. The church had long held that the earth was the center of the universe.2 This view was based on a literal interpretation of scriptures that pictured the earth as being fixed “on its foundations, unshakable for ever and ever.” (Psalm 104:5, The Jerusalem Bible) Summoned to Rome, Galileo appeared before the Inquisition. Subjected to rigorous examination, he was forced to recant his findings, and he spent the rest of his life under house arrest.

coolcat · Accepted Answer

Well you certainly disproved them.  I think before people shoot their mouths off they should check their source and accuracy. There is so much heresy on here. I appreciate your research.

imacatholic2 · Answer

Here is a list of some Catholic scientists:

Fr. Roger Boscovich - the father of modern atomic theory

Nicolaus Copernicus - the Heliocentric Universe

Marie Curie - Radioactivity

Leonardo da Vinci - Artist, Inventor, Scientist 

Rene Descartes - mathematician, scientist and philosopher 

Enrico Fermi - Atomic Physics

Alexander Fleming - Penicillin

Galileo Galilei - the New Science

Johannes Gutenberg - printing press inventor

Fr. Athanasius Kircher - a father of Egyptology

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier - the Revolution in Chemistry

Marcello Malpighi - Microscopic Anatomy

Guglielmo Marconi - Radio Developer 

Gregor Mendel - the Laws of Inheritance

Louis Pasteur - the Germ Theory of Disease

Fr. Giambattista Riccioli - first to measure the rate of acceleration of a freely falling body

Erwin Schrodinger - Wave Mechanics

Andreas Vesalius - the New Anatomy

John von Neumann - the Modern Computer

With love in Christ.

Anonymous · Answer

Gregor Mendel was a monk and the founder of genetics.  And the church in the middle ages was very active in science.  They, as you point out, also tried to suppress it.

In general I agree with you position that the church and science have problems.  The main one is that science keeps finding problems with the way the scriptures say the universe is put together and the way that life came to be on it.

STILL standing · Answer

Almost all of them up until about the 1800s.

Please read the link below for proof and as you do so note that this was only the most convenient text for proof of the Catholic Church's invaluability to both science and the development of the Western thought.

Lives7 · Answer

Knute Rockne of Notre Dame University helped to discover synthetic rubber at the University of Notre Dame with a priest!

Go Irish!

Poo · Answer

Maybe we would have found a cure to cancer by now or set a man on mars, if so many scientists findings hadn't been suppressed by religous absurdity. I guess we'll never know.

Anonymous · Answer

Better than having a spike driven through his tongue and being burned alive on a fire started by his own writings.

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Did many science contribution came from Catholics? (retort to an answer)?

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