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To: Arthur Radley who wrote (213986)	1/2/2002 12:41:30 PM
From: gao seng	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Galileo proved the Vatican and Aristotle wrong. The Church has apologized. But he did not prove the Bible wrong. Galileo is certainly a hero to mankind. Galileo's lifelong struggle to free scientific inquiry from restriction by philosophical and theological interference stands beyond science. Since the full publication of Galileo's trial documents in the 1870s, entire responsibility for Galileo's condemnation has customarily been placed on the Roman Catholic church. This conceals the role of the philosophy professors who first persuaded theologians to link Galileo's science with heresy. An investigation into the astronomer's condemnation, calling for its reversal, was opened in 1979 by Pope John Paul II. In October 1992 a papal commission acknowledged the Vatican's error.