That was one of the only not understandable things I've heard Freddie say.
Oh; he says a lot that's incomprehensible, but....
I think that could be a capacity problem. Mine.
But I couldn't understand:
<<<Kepler, Copernicus, the Bacons, Newton, Maxwell, Heisenberg, all these backward dopes and many others failed to see Christianity as an impediment to their scientific work. It's a conceit that simply doesn't stand up to examination, either historical or epistemological. But I guess if repetition makes something true, then true it must be.>>>
(What about Descartes, having to confuse and/or bluff The Buttheads into even letting people think?)
Yah, repetition has made it true.
I don't think there "has to be" a separation of Church and Science, and I thought that was Freddie's point. (Talking about people in the third person is really scary, especially Freddie, isn't it?) But then the rest of it doesn't fit. So I think his statement is incomplete, or he has completely lost his freaking mind.
I have a second theory, and that is the cockatiel. Freddie and a guy from USC have been teaching him to peck. Or it could be those wearable computers he got for the tetras.
The church survives in spite of itself. It's a mystery to me why. I separate it, myself, from Christianity. It has stood in the way of science and knowledge at every turn, without a doubt, under some assumption "God" would.
Pope Urban the VIII wasn't very urban. Not very civilized to Galileo. Or was it Bruno. I forget. Doesn't matter. Literally. They were all princes. It was known in Europe before Galileo that the Earth was not the system center. Galileo just validated and published it; so it was the spreading of truth and visible proof thereof that was the real offense to the church.
Freddie's statement sounded practically papal.
Okay, Freddie, fire away. Just remember, I can dish it out, but I can't take it. |
