There is no definitive answer to the question posed at left. Most people would say that, in the West, the division started in the 16th Century with Galileo and Copernicus. Then we had Newton 100 years later, followed by Mendeleev …
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When Science and Religion Began to Pull Apart
Tagged with: Galileo and Copernicus, germ theory of disease, Linnaeus (the classification of life forms), Mendeleev (the periodic table), Michael Faraday figured out electricity and magnetism, Newton, tens of millions of our country's idiots and our right-wing politicians whom they elect to represent them
A World of Great Possibilities
On the surface, this post is almost 100% off-subject, though I know readers who enjoy a good story will appreciate the Writer’s Almanac’s blurb on today’s 67th anniversary of the opening of “ A Streetcar Named Desire” on Broadway. For some …
