“Aristotle was the greatest philosopher and scientist of the ancient world.” So says the book The 100–A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History. It is not difficult to see why such statements are made about this great man. Aristotle (384-322 BCE) was a student of the famous philosopher Plato and later tutored the prince who became Alexander the Great (1 Maccabees 1-9 and Surah 18:83-99).
According to ancient lists, Aristotle’s prodigious output included 170 books, 47 of which have survived. He wrote extensively on astronomy, biology, chemistry, zoology, physics, geology, and psychology. Some of the minute details he recorded about living things were not observed and studied again for centuries. “Aristotle’s influence upon all later Western thought has been immense,” notes The 100. It adds, however, “Admiration for Aristotle became so great that in late medieval times it approached idolatry.” Source: A General History for Colleges and High Schools, 1900.
Why didn’t the Judeo-Christian god give Aristotle’s “wisdom” to any of his prophets? Centuries after Aristotle, Christians still thought the world was flat (Matthew 4:8) and that the sun revolved around the earth (Ecclesiastes 1:5; Psalm 104:5). Copernicus proved that the Christian Bible was wrong about geocentricism. Christianity also attempts to tell us that our Milky Way galaxy is less than seven thousand years old. THE END
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