Danes feel Obama is greater than Jesus

[--Pete]

Hi,

Why all this whining on about books that have been written 1000, 2000 or even more years ago.
How can you take anything serious from a time in which people didn't know that the Americas existed, or how rain is formed, or what DNA is, or what stars and planets are and most importantly had no tools and knowledge to find out where they came from.

Our mathematics are based on concepts developed by the Greeks -- they are the ones who came up with ideas like 'axioms', 'theorems', 'logical proofs'. Indeed, we still study plane geometry the way Euclid taught it. The same is true of our philosophy and, with a Judeo-Christian mixture, our morality. Archimedes had no idea of the subjects you mention, yet he got the concept of density right -- and damn near invented calculus about two millenia before Newton/ Leibniz. The Iliad and the Odyssey, not to mention Gilgamesh are still fascinating reading some three millenia after they were written down (and who knows how many millenia since they were first told orally).

Do you even know why we have a seven day week?

--Pete