Post by glindstedt on May 17, 2015 23:26:20 GMT
My name is Greg Lindstedt, I've been a student for two and a half years at Mount San Antonio college, and I'm a nursing major.
Question #1: Why was Socrates sentenced to death?
Answer: Socrates was before his time with the amount of education he had possessed, which ended up costing him his life. Socrates was killed for corrupting the younger generation and ignoring what Athenians called "their gods". Socrates wasn't okay with going with the flow like everyone else and wanted to question every belief made by Athenians. In the "Socratic Dialogue", towards the end Socrates states, "I was hoping that you would instruct me in the nature of piety and impiety; and then I might have cleared myself of Meletus and his indictment. I would have told him that I had been enlightened by Euthyphro, and had given up rash innovations and speculations, in which I indulged only through ignorance, and that now I am about to lead a better life"(How Socrates Died 27). Towards the end of the trial Socrates realized that he should of been a better person over the years and gave back to the younger generations by teaching them of his learning's. Although Socrates felt that way, it was too late, because Meletus and other Athenian jurers sentenced Socrates to the death penalty for corruption of the youth and "impiety". Meletus came to this decision, because he believed that Socrates was a "maker of gods, and that he invented new gods and denied the existence of old ones" (How Socrates Died 6).
Question #2: Why is there a conflict between science and religion?
Answer: There are many overlapping beliefs that cause conflict between science and religion, most of the feuds have something to do with the solar system or evolution. According to religioustolerance.org one of the most famous conflicts between these two topics was the conflict from the 1500's to the 1600's, which was that the bible taught the solar system as a "geocentric system". This means that the earth is at the center and all other planets and stars revolve around it. The argument was that a scientist named Galileo found that its actually not a "geocentric system", the solar system is actually a "heliocentric system", which means the complete opposite is true and the sun is actually at the center of the solar system. The point I'm trying to make is that science goes by there set of facts and the church goes by there own set of facts and they refuse to meet halfway on most beliefs. Science and religion need to find a way to balance both belief systems so that contentious issues don't keep reoccurring over the next several hundred years.