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>Aquinas a good old sophist.He is still among the 5 best philosophers in history according to the philosophy professors at Stanford University, only surpassed by Aristotle, Plato and Kant.
>Tbh you shouldn't bother to read anyone before Newton for any reason other than entertainment, you will learn nothing.This is stupid, without going too far, Aristotelian logic is still used within all academic disciplines and has shown to be quite useful for both mathematics and computer science; in geometry Euclidean geometry is still used, and these two are authors are from Greek Antiquity, for God sake, and Newton wrote more theology than physics.
>Religion has never been a particularly efficient method for truth production. Religion is not a method, it is a humanity just like literature and history, I think you mean theology or rather the first philosophy. The quote does not refer to the use of faith as the rationalism of the formal sciences, much less the empiricism of the natural sciences, but faith as a guide or inspiration.
>It has at best tortured out heuristics for human behaviour through a vastly ineffective route, that is incapable of adjusting to a changing environmen efficiently. As I said above, modern science is the product of Christian culture.
>There is a good reason why noone asks the Rabbi how to compute feynman diagrams or compute group cohomology or build bridges. Its clearly a fucking archaism. Here are some Christian physicists/mathematicians who can help you: Alessandro Volta, Andre-Marie Ampere, Max Born, Werner Heisenberg, Michael Polanyi, Ernest Walton, Max Planch, Robert Boyd, Euler, Pascal, Bernhard Riemann, Alonzo Church, Fasenmyer, Newton, Leibniz, Maxwell, Joule, Kelvin, Stokes and George Lemaitre. It's funny because Lemaitre was an actual priest.
Good night, God bless you.