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To: Lane3 who wrote (23222)	1/7/2004 1:54:17 AM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (2) of 793677

Something really clicked when I read that. Science in the 16th and 17th century was revolutionary, and was a product of its time. One of the assertions of the Reformation was that Catholic Councils could be wrong in their conclusions - that truth was not the product of consensus. Galileo was a revolutionary because he refused to renounce demonstrable fact reached by the application of reason by the individual. Science is possible only in a belief system that is individualistic, not communitarian because truth is not something that is reached by compromise. I wonder how much science has been affected by the social inertia of the Academy. Derek

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