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Post by merkavah12 on Jan 9, 2014 5:40:19 GMT
.....and people immediately flood in to tell us about the "Dark Ages caused by those religionists". Here is the main article itself (from 2007 apparently) www.sciencenews.org/article/prayer-archimedes"A long-lost text by the ancient Greek mathematician shows that he had begun to discover the principles of calculus." Apparently the Reddit crowd has made this old article go viral.
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Post by timoneill on Jan 9, 2014 8:21:16 GMT
Apparently the Reddit crowd has made this old article go viral. Though my new pals on the BadHistory subreddit have been having a ball at their expense.
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Post by fortigurn on Jan 9, 2014 20:27:19 GMT
I remember this coming up years ago. I actually commented on it in 2007 when it was raised in a largely atheist forum. Here's my comment from back then.
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Post by wraggy on Jan 10, 2014 3:50:48 GMT
And I see one sage by the name of bluSPECTRE has even put up the infamous graph of "Scientific Advancement" that demonstrates "The Hole left by the Christian Dark Ages". linkbluSPECTRE:
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