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Dr Seb Falk Interview - "The Light Ages" - Science in the Middle Ages

History for Atheists

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The Weak View of History

I think that fundamentally misunderstands what Newton was doing because it's looking at him on our or particular type of modern terms. And this is what I'm badly against the whole time with history paratheists: getting people to see the past of its own terms. If you only look at things in the past and judge them according to how they manage to be like us, then of course we get 100% because we're at 100%.

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