Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "Johannes Kepler: God’s Mathematician" video.

  1. That’s incredible. Because witchcraft accusations are so notoriously based on circular reasoning, which simply ignores any attempt at refutation.
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  2. 12:45 A line between the Sun and the planet traces out equal areas in equal times. Or, in other words, angular momentum is conserved. That wasn’t so hard, was it?
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  3. Interesting that those who try to point to religious people who were scientists always overlook the fact that their scientific discoveries were invariably achieved in spite of, not because of, their religious beliefs.
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  4.  @Creativethinker12  The beginnings of systematic curiosity about the world (what we would describe as “science”) originated in pagan Greece. And were ignored and pretty much forgotten when Christianity took over. Instead, the Greek teachings were continued by the Islamic world, and were only rediscovered in Europe after Europe realized that there was more to the world than Christianity would allow.
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  5.  @fredball4894  “But when I see or hear of things like this I can only tell you what I know. It is real.” If it is real, it can be studied scientifically. Science is, by definition, the study of what is real. And one of the things we discover in science is that reality does not divide itself into compartments, like “natural” and “supernatural”. There is just one reality.
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  6. 12:51 Kepler’s Third Law is just a restatement of the inverse-square law of the gravitational force.
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  7. Actually, it was the Arabs that kept learning alive during the Dark Ages in the Christian world. You know, back when Christians were still burning people at the stake for trying to claim that the Earth was not the centre of the Universe?
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  8.  @ecec4642  No, circular reasoning is using an assumption that your prejudices are correct in order to argue that they are correct. For example, if your “supernatural” phenomenon does not have to follow any scientific laws, then there is no reason why it has to confine itself to one small corner of reality. The fact that it is so confined indicates that it does follow laws, which can be studied scientifically. In other words, in a universe where miracles are possible, then everything has to be a miracle.
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  9. 6:29 “Icosa”, not “isoca”.
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  10. Or, you could just watch Ken Russell’s Gothic , then walk around looking stunned for a couple of days.
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