The website removed a claim that the Church banned dissection - but still claims Catholicism helped to cause 'stagnation'
BBC Bitesize has removed a false statement about the Church, after an academic complained about it.
The popular revision website had told GCSE students that “the Church played a big part in medical stagnation” partly by “forbidding the dissection of corpses”.
Professor David Paton, who wrote a blogpost for the Catholic Herald noting that historians had dismissed this as a myth, also wrote to the BBC complaints department.
The BBC have agreed to remove the claim about dissection, and senior management at the Corporation will be informed of the correction.
Paton said he had focused on the point about dissection because it was “just factually incorrect”, and that he was “pleased” the BBC had taken action. “Hopefully, exam boards and GCSE textbooks which are still promoting this myth will take the lead of the BBC and stop claiming that the Church banned dissection.
But he argued that the page is still inaccurate, since it claims that Catholicism was responsible for “stagnation” by promoting “prayer and superstition”, and makes no note of the Church’s contributions to medical progress. Paton said: “Although it is good to see some progress being made, the BBC Bitesize page still gives a very biased and misleading view of the Church’s role in the development of medicine. It is laughable when the only positive thing the BBC can find to say about the Church is that it encouraged people to go on the Crusades! Children learning GCSE History deserve better than this.”
Eleanor Parker, a lecturer in medieval history at Oxford University, said: “I’m very glad that the BBC has been responsive to feedback, and it’s important to correct misleading statements like this. It’s a shame, though, that the page still gives the impression that the medieval Church actively discouraged scientific progress by encouraging prayer as a replacement for medicine. Medieval Christians did not see science and religion as opposed to each other, and the Church encouraged and supported the study of science along with many other kinds of learning.”
Looks like they were stumped by the big Christian . Brits are poison though
Bentley Gonzalez
I don't see why they don't appeal to Islam. Muslims love Christ, they just see him as a prophet not the son of God. Why not go after all these Jews denying the existence of Christ as Islamaphobia/anti-Islamic rhetoric. You can win over the atheists.
Hunter Jackson
Why uk to hate christ? Because of to evil?
Nathan Miller
Theyre not listening to facts at all. They still refused to leave the space where the lie was without denigrating Christianity in some way. This is how the British or niggers as I like to call them will always be.
Levi Sanchez
>Muslims love Christ, they just see him as a prophet not the son of God. Then they dont love Christ
Andrew Johnson
This. They claim to "love" something they happened to name Jesus. If I love my gardener named Jesus that doesn't make me a Christian. I would never associate with a spic though.
Ethan Ramirez
The Church did hamper dissection, but not in the way people think. Thing is, grave robbers would defile graves just to sell the cadavers to anatomy students, much to the horror of the families of the dead. So they put "mortsafes", heavy iron and stone cages, on top of graves until the cadavers in them were decayed enough to no longer be viable for anatomical study.
They did a public service since no one likes to have their loved ones get stolen from their graves and cut to pieces by some stranger.
Jack Jenkins
>we dont stand in the way of medical progress >stemcells have human souls though btw
Brayden King
This is a monumental event.
Grayson Rivera
Exactly!
Benjamin Barnes
>Islam hasn't come up with anything related to science in the last 1000 years. >Christianity bans dissection for a short period >BBC goes apeshit and starts an anti-Christianity crusade
Wyatt Turner
Something very appealing to me about that image. Apparently it's this guy Viktor Vatsnetsov.
Cooper Jones
bump
Juan Turner
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Dylan Foster
Are you niggers not getting it? The Church didn't ban dissection period. It also contributed to science more than probably any other institution in history tbqf.
I don't consider dispensationalists to be Christian. I think it's an evil, insidious, and new heresy that was historically considered appalling. The entire history of Christianity is with me on this one, besides some recent (((developments))). I don't care about the jew memer you posted either.
