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To: nihil who wrote (30411)	6/29/1999 1:07:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

And the sad sad recantation of Galileo. That is hard reading. (but perhaps that is what you meant by his humiliation)

To: nihil who wrote (30411)	6/30/1999 1:17:00 AM
From: JF Quinnelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Galileo was a practicing Catholic. His Vatican tormentors got their cosmology from Plato and this is evident from the trial record. Kepler and Copernicus flourished under the Protestant princes of northern Europe. Servetus wasn't a scientist, and in fact was executed under Roman law, not Canon law. You didn't mention the scientists fired from American universities because they questioned Christian doctrine. Neither did you; name one. I didn't mention a lot of the grab-bag that you complain about, since what I was addressing was the relation of scientific development to Christianity. Do you have any knowledge at all of the war between science and superstition that has been taking place for a thousand years? Evidently more than you do. Come back to it once you have read Jaki and JP Moreland.