{"id":2469,"date":"2014-05-03T11:24:56","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T16:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=2469"},"modified":"2014-05-03T11:24:56","modified_gmt":"2014-05-03T16:24:56","slug":"mythological-family-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2014\/05\/03\/mythological-family-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Mythological family tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140503-103318.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140503-103318.jpg\" alt=\"20140503-103318.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Came across this fascinating phylogeny of worldviews somewhere on social media, credited to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HumanOdyssey\">HumanOdyssey<\/a> on Facebook. <\/p>\n<p>The few bits that I know about from reading the history of the three Abrahamic religions look spot on, but I cannot vouch for the remainder of the chart. I do find it somewhat troubling that Christianity is given any credit for the scientific revolution. Even though scientific thinking unquestionably arose within the cultural milieu of greater Christendom, it is more a small stretch to claim that Christianity accelerated rather than retarded the pace of scientific discovery, as anyone who has been following <em>Cosmos<\/em> on television will be aware. For that matter, it is arguable whether there shouldn&#8217;t be a solid line to science from Hellenism rather than Christianity.<\/p>\n<p>Such quibbling aside, I love the idea of treating worldviews as a colourful family tree, showing how memeplexes mutate and evolve over time. Share and enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Came across this fascinating phylogeny of worldviews somewhere on social media, credited to HumanOdyssey on Facebook. The few bits that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}