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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (78046)	10/22/2003 11:29:45 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Roger Bacon and Albertus Magnus were revered by many in their lifetimes, and were friends of the great. You approach is ridiculously ahistorical. Instead of looking at the cultural turmoil attending the reintroduction of Greco- Roman science and philosophy into Western Europe, and noticing that while parts of the Church fought it, other parts championed it, until a path was cleared, you want to make it into a cautionary tale about the big bad Church and the fight against obscurantism. Let me ask you, was there any resistance to Newtonianism? Did Galileo get into any trouble until he embraced Copernicanism, despite his interest in the new physics? And how long did it take for the Church to stop fighting Copernicanism? How do you figure on thousands being tortured and killed for science? Pfui indeed.......