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Έλα ντε. Είναι σα να λέμε όμως ότι ο καλύτερος αστροναύτης του κόσμου είναι ο Μαραντόνα. Αφού ήταν τόσο καλός σαν ποδοσφαιριστής, πώς μπορεί να μην είναι τέλειος στην αστροναυτική;

Is there some explanation why science was developed by the ancient Greeks. And is there an explanation in the religion of the ancient Greeks?

An explanation is provided in an article of the Brittanica Encyclopedia:

There seems to be no good reason why the Hellenes, clustered in isolated city-states in a relatively poor and backward land, should have struck out into intellectual regions that were only dimly perceived, if at all, by the splendid civilizations of the Yangtze, the Tigris and Euphrates, and the Nile valleys. There were many differences between ancient Greece and the other civilizations, but perhaps the most significant was religion. What is striking about Greek religion, in contrast to the religions of Mesopotamia and Egypt, is its puerility. Both of the great river civilizations evolved complex theologies that served to answer most, if not all, of the large questions about mankind's place and destiny. Greek religion did not. It was, in fact, little more than a collection of folk tales, more appropriate to the campfire than to the temple. Perhaps this was the result of the collapse of an earlier Greek civilization, now called Mycenaean, toward the end of the 2nd millennium BC, when a dark age descended upon Greece that lasted for three centuries. All that was preserved were stories of gods and men, passed along by poets, that dimly reflected Mycenaean values and events. Such were the great poems of Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey, in which heroes and gods mingled freely with one another. Indeed, they mingled too freely, for the gods appear in these tales as little more than immortal adolescents whose tricks and feats, when compared with the concerns of a Marduk or Jehovah, are infantile. There really was no Greek theology in the sense that theology provides a coherent and profound explanation of the workings of both the cosmos and the human heart. Hence, there were no easy answers to inquiring Greek minds. The result was that ample room was left for a more penetrating and ultimately more satisfying mode of inquiry. Thus were philosophy and its oldest offspring, science, born.

...The Greek looked out upon the world through an atmosphere singularly free from the mist of allegory and myth: the contrast between the philosophy of the East and the first attempts of the Ionian physicists is as striking as the difference between an Indian jungle and the sunny, breeze-swept shores of the Mediterranean. Greek Religion exercised hardly more than an indirect influence on Greek philosophy. Popular beliefs were so crude as to their speculative content that they could not long retain their hold on the mind of the philosopher. Consequently, such influence as they directly exercised was antagonistic to philosophy. Yet it was the popular beliefs which, by keeping alive among the Greeks an exquisite appreciation of form and an abiding sense of symmetry, did not permit the philosopher to take a partial or an isolated view of things. In this way Greek religion indirectly fostered that imperative desire for a totality of view which, in the best days of Greek speculation, enabled Greek philosophy to attain its most important results
Encyclopedia Britannica, History of Science

http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/ReligionScience.htm

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence any time. -- Terry Pratchett

Απλώς ξέρω καλύτερα αγγλικά.

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Μάλλον ο Junk95 δέν είναι απ'ότι φαίνεται καλός γνώστης των Ορφικών και της Ορφικής θρησκείας απο την οποία έχουν πάρει στοιχεία αντιγράφοντας την όλες οι θρησκείες του κόσμου ακόμα και ο Χριστιανισμός.

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Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence any time. -- Terry Pratchett

Οπς! Να 'μαι και εγώ! Σας έλειψα;
Μην ανησυχείτε βρε κουτά. Απλά είχα μαζέψει αρκετά χρήματα από τα posts μου υπέρ του δωδεκαθεισμού και ξεκουραζόμουν. Τώρα σαν να τα βλέπω να έχουν λιγοστέψει και είπα να κάνω μια βόλτα από εδώ. Χμ και βλέπω και ενδιαφέρον θέμα. Θα βγάλω αρκετά. Ας ξεκινήσω λοιπόν με την πρώτη μου ατάκα.

ΕΛΕΟΣ!

αλλά παρεμβάσεις σου όπως:

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AGAPHTE DWRIEYS, OUK MONO EP' ARTW ZISETAI AN8RWPOS, ETSI DEN EINAI; ALLWSTE, EIDAME POU EXOUN ODHGHSEI TA SXOLEIA. STON OLE8RO, TON FOBO, THN KATASTROFH...

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Ενω θα μπορουσε λογου χαρη να κανει ενα κατακλυσμο ή να σπειρει μερικες πληγες ή να ριξει
το μανα !!!

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Μετα διαβασα τον υσχιρισμο οτι στην πραγματικοτητα οι αρχαιοι ελληνες ηταν αθεοι που ελεγαν τους μυθους για να περναει η ωρα και δεν τους πιστευαν και οι ιδιοι στην πραγματηκοτητα

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Μένω εμβρόντητος στην ιδέα ότι το παραπάνω θεωρούνταν κάποιου είδους συντριπτικό επιχείρημα!