Education-Social Science
How the early Christian church gave birth to today’s WEIRD Europeans
In September 506 C.E., the fathers of what would later become the Roman Catholic Church gathered in southern France to draw up dozens of new laws. Some forbade clergy from visiting unrelated women. Others forbade Christians from marrying anyone more closely related than their third cousin. The authors of a sweeping new study say that last, seemingly trivial prohibition may have given birth to Western civilization as we know it.
Evolutionary epistemology versus faith and justified true belief:
William Hall Evolutionary epistemology versus faith and justified true belief: Power Point Atheists Society Lecture: 12 August 2014
