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To: Disestablishmentarian
Scholars generally consider the Renaissance to be 1300 - 1600, it started 150 years before Gutenberg, he did not 'spark' it.

Galileo was asked to not teach as fact what could not then be proven by the scientific method, he was asked to teach it as a theory. Read the court transcripts.

406 posted on 08/08/2019 1:12:49 PM PDT by pbear8 (the Lord is my light and my salvation)
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To: pbear8
Galileo was asked to not teach as fact what could not then be proven by the scientific method, he was asked to teach it as a theory. Read the court transcripts.

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I think you should take your defense of the Inquisition to the Catholic threads.

845 posted on 08/09/2019 8:37:29 AM PDT by Disestablishmentarian
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