When human beings come into this world and just begin to learn to think, they do not have to talk about logic and evidence, as long as a statement is accepted by most people, it will be considered "truth", because there is no need to talk about logic and evidence, so it is easy to slide into theology. What kind of "truth" will be accepted by most people? That is a very "fascinating" story, in the early days of mankind, human understanding is not high, and their thinking is not much different from the statement will be understood by them, so in the early ancient human world everywhere like fairy tale fables and myths and legends, myths and legends around the world are not universal, limited to a small range, the formation of different national cultures, because in the ancient period, people-to-people communication is not frequent, so that myths and legends can not compete well, integration, And the formation of a fragmented situation. After thousands of years of development in ancient Greek mythology that existed a few years ago, a unified religion emerged in Europe and Asia, and as the interaction between the various peoples increased, religion began to merge into large religions.
The earliest human mind was the religious mind, which did not require any logic or proof, so the religious mind was the lowest human mind, but because of its wide spread, it had a great influence.
Greek mythology is the spiritual product of primitive clan societies, the earliest literary form in Europe. Produced around the 8th century BC, it formed a basic scale on the basis of the long-term oral transmission of ancient Greek aborigines and borrowed from the myths that spread to Greece and other countries, and was later recorded in Homer's Homeric Epic and Hesiod's "Divine Genealogy" and ancient Greek poetry, drama, history, philosophy and other works, and later generations compiled them into the current ancient Greek mythological stories, divided into two parts: the story of the gods and the legend of heroes.
Take a look at this ancient Greek story: Legend has it that the ancient Greek fairy Krikia fell in love with the sun god Apollo, so she always liked to look at the sky, hoping to see Apollo driving across the sky in a chariot of flames. The fairy's body stood still in the field, heading toward the sky to follow the sun god's trail every day.
Her body gradually stiffened, and then turned into a slender and tough plant torso, her feet slowly inserted into the dirt, the beautiful and charming hair turned into a bright yellow flower crown, and the fairy Krikia became a beautiful sunflower, facing the sky, in pursuit of its beloved, the sun god. Later, the flower language of sunflowers was widely circulated, symbolizing silent love.
What a beautiful love story this is? Therefore, it is not surprising that the deepening of ancient Greece was "accepted" by most people. With the expansion of ancient Greece, ancient Greek culture also spread throughout Eurasia and Africa, becoming the source of European culture.
When Christianity was designated as the "state religion" of Rome, Christian theology began to replace ancient Greek mythology, and in the European Middle Ages, the unified thinking on the European continent was religious thinking, and the only source of "knowledge" obtained by medieval Europeans was that the pulpits of the "church" priests became their enlightenment schools, because the uniqueness of the acquisition of "knowledge" was the same idea, and there was not even a spark of thought.
The Bible also has an engaging story, which is one of the reasons why Christianity has been widely circulated, in the Old Testament, the story of Adam and Eve is very fascinating, in the Bible explains the origin of mankind, which is the manifestation of human self-consciousness awakening, wanting to explore its own history, the Bible gives the answer, satisfies human curiosity, and makes the Bible more deeply rooted in people's hearts. Different from the ancient Greek mythological stories, in the ancient Greek mythological stories, various races are the descendants of the combination of man and God, human beings are nothing more than the accident of God's love with man, and what is prominent in the Bible is that God loves people, gives people hope, has a higher standard, God loves all people, rather than loving a certain race alone, which also accelerates the great integration of democracy, more and more believers, Christianity becomes the faith of more and more people, faith is transformed into religion, and Christianity's control over people's thoughts is also strong. This, in turn, limits the emergence of other ideas from development.
Originally, after the emergence of ancient Greek mythology, another way of thinking also arose in ancient Greece, that is, philosophical thinking, the philosophical thinking that appeared at the beginning was natural philosophy, and the philosophy after Socrates thought about social problems, closer to human beings, and philosophy began to solve the problems of the world. The superiority of philosophy over theology is that philosophical thinking is logical, logic is the foundation of philosophy, and mythological stories do not require any logic.
Why hasn't a more reasonable philosophy developed? Instead, was it gained the upper hand in the Middle Ages by an unjustified religion? That is because the logical thinking of philosophy limits its development, in order to understand philosophy, it is necessary to have a certain ability to think logically, in the ancient Greek period, there were not many educated and logically trained people, philosophy can only spread between them, and people who do not understand any logic are too lazy to think logically, because at that time the number of people who understood not to think logically was dominant, Christianity defeated the more reasonable philosophy, which is an abnormal phenomenon, and it is the fault that education has not been able to popularize.
After the 11th century, the Renaissance broke out in Europe, after the Renaissance, the church schools began to absorb the common people, education was no longer the patent of the church, a large number of civilians entered the church college to study, at the beginning to learn spelling and computing, the development of church schools also underwent a transformation, the Italian business at that time had developed, guilds were popular in Italy, student guilds were also formed, the guild system changed the composition of the school, in order to adapt to these students and scholars, the previous church schools added language, geometry and other courses, The civilization of ancient Greece has returned to Europe.
After hundreds of years of evolution, the university began to be independent of the church, the prototype of the modern university appeared, London became the center of European education, with the establishment of modern universities, the scholars and students trained by the new university are more willing to adopt a new way of thinking, that is, the empirical method, but also the scientific method, anything as long as it can be proved, it can be called science, the other is just a utopian, the previous philosophical thinking method, although there is logical thinking, because the utopian is thinking, the lack of empirical evidence, And it's easy to fall into fantasy.
Aristotle described free fall as a figment of his own imagination, and by the sixteenth century Galileo's experiment with a Leaning Tower of Pisa was debunked. There is no other reason for Galileo's victory, but only the scientific method--empirical evidence, in the face of ironclad facts, any utopian imagination has appeared in its original form. Even the philosopher Aristotle was not spared.
The difference between the scientific method and the philosophical method is that it does not need to be logically thought and trained, people see it as believing, empirical evidence speaks louder than eloquence, and any theory pales in the face of empirical evidence. Not all the scholars watching Galileo's free fall experiment were ordinary people.
For theology, science's response is more powerful. Chinese believed in the existence of dragons for thousands of years, and dragons were Chinese myth as omnipotent, but when science entered China, the belief in dragons disappeared. The scientific method, the empirical evidence, suddenly misreads the dragon's lies. If you say that dragons exist, then you come up with evidence to prove the existence of dragons, and archaeology has found dinosaur fossils from tens of millions to 200 million years ago, so dinosaurs existed, and fossils prove the existence of dinosaurs. So far, no fossils of Chinese dragons have been found, so Chinese dragons can only be utopian, saying that dinosaurs existed is science, and saying that Chinese dragons exist can only be myths.
Darwin published the origin of species in the 19th century when there were voices of opposition, on June 30, 1860, the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in the Library of Oxford University overturned this "truth", and more than 700 listeners witnessed this moment, which is a famous event in the history of human science and philosophy, known as the "Oxford Debate". No one believes in creationism anymore. The scientific method is the most advantageous weapon against theology.