Wise One wrote:
> This just shows how willing and desperate people were to find patterns in
> nature in those days.
> The people of the age were looking for any way to explain life patterns
> where as we have many of the answerHs on a plate
I think this might be too modern a perspective.
For patterns and explanations, the primary source would be the Scriptures.
The idea that one can find the truth by observing nature is surely a
modern one, rather than a medieval one.
(And I'm really not sure how many of the answers we have on a plate. We
seem to know something about how the universe ticks, but to a medieval
mind this would all be mere frivolous detail. And that same mind would
be sure about things that we find ourselves doubting.)
Alasdair
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