Christianity has impacted the lives of all through centuries in many ways. Christianity has created the basis to many subjects in this world. It did not only impact religion but science, morality, government, human rights and many more. Through all this, mankind around the world has lived their lives according to the beliefs of these subjects impacted on. In most subjects people study Christianity plays a major role and this must be recognized.
Christianity throughout years has had a greater impact on science then in any other area. The church has provided for us the founders of science (www.rae.org/influsci.html) from men such as Urbain LeVerrier who discovered Neptune, to Nicolas Copernicus who created the heliocentric theory. This also included the thought of the Big Bang theory with a Christian man by the name of Georges Lemaitre who stated, "It all had to have begun with light." This is helping us realize God had to have something to do with the creation of this world by creating the light. But this wasn't the end; another Christian man by the name of Anton von Leeuwenhoek had brought to the attention of all the study of bacteriology. Pagan beliefs sought that nature was just a group of gods who weren't to be angered. Christianity told us different and said that nature is real, it is not an illusion. The fact that God left it to us to create technology that met human needs was apart of the study of nature. (www.leadru.com/orgs/probe/docs/threat.html) As an early historian once said, "the Christian concept of moral obligation played an important role in attracting people to the study of nature." Many others had thoughts to say about the study of nature on the way God has impacted on it. Another historian stated, "As the creation of a trustworthy God, nature exhibited regularity, dependability, and orderliness. It was intelligible and could be studied. It displayed a knowable order." There are many other small subject included in science that are sought to be... [continues]
Christianity throughout years has had a greater impact on science then in any other area. The church has provided for us the founders of science (www.rae.org/influsci.html) from men such as Urbain LeVerrier who discovered Neptune, to Nicolas Copernicus who created the heliocentric theory. This also included the thought of the Big Bang theory with a Christian man by the name of Georges Lemaitre who stated, "It all had to have begun with light." This is helping us realize God had to have something to do with the creation of this world by creating the light. But this wasn't the end; another Christian man by the name of Anton von Leeuwenhoek had brought to the attention of all the study of bacteriology. Pagan beliefs sought that nature was just a group of gods who weren't to be angered. Christianity told us different and said that nature is real, it is not an illusion. The fact that God left it to us to create technology that met human needs was apart of the study of nature. (www.leadru.com/orgs/probe/docs/threat.html) As an early historian once said, "the Christian concept of moral obligation played an important role in attracting people to the study of nature." Many others had thoughts to say about the study of nature on the way God has impacted on it. Another historian stated, "As the creation of a trustworthy God, nature exhibited regularity, dependability, and orderliness. It was intelligible and could be studied. It displayed a knowable order." There are many other small subject included in science that are sought to be... [continues]
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