Ackah, K.2013-12-092013-12-092013-12-09http://197.255.68.203/handle/123456789/4569In the 19th century Auguste Comte formulated a doctrine which, under the title of Positive Philosophy, explicitly declared that only the so-called positive sciences—the study of natural, social, and mental phenomena by empirical methods—deserve to be called sciences. In contrast, religion is mere superstition (believing irrationally), and philosophy is mere speculation (represents a futile attempt by reason to go beyond the phenomena in order to discover ultimate causes). Since then there has been a firm distinction between theology, philosophy and science, giving the impression that science and philosophy evolved independently of theology and that, somehow, science is essentially incompatible with theology. Against the position of many scholars in Ancient Philosophy, I argue that Western science and philosophy indeed evolved from theological reasoning.enArticle