S///R///W/B Mythless Patterns

[Paul Mackin]

On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Jeremy Osner wrote:

> Paul Mackin wrote:
> 
> > Another thing, it kept alive a lot of the best thought of the ancient
> > world. Plato, Aristotle, etc--the deciplines which later could be split off
> > from belief and made to work in the development of modern science
> 
> Hate to quibble but Muslim scholars were primarily responsible for preserving
> the writings of the Greek philosophers -- not much Greek was spoken in the
> Catholic church during the Middle Ages.

Absolutely. I was talking about presevation for the West. Christianity's
first cousin Islam was essential in the chain and got pretty far West
itself (Spain and all). Didn't intend to slight them.
		P.