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To: RegulatorCountry; dr_lew
So, Greek pagans constituted an early church, some "politician" voted geocentrism into law to win election, and it was all an act on Ptolemy's part, to avoid sanction by these Greek pagans?

Ptolemy's theory of the planetary motions was a great achievement, but his perfunctory reasoning justifying geocentrism and his insistence on the doctrine that the unchanging Heavens are utterly distinct from the changeable and corruptible sublunary sphere, to which the science of physics is confined, certainly give a premonition of scholasticism, and may even be the same thing; that is, founded on religious doctrine.

Yeah, what Dr_Lew said.

56 posted on 03/07/2010 1:42:15 PM PST by UCANSEE2
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To: UCANSEE2

You’re just being silly now. Can you successfully paraphrase what you’ve cited? I’m beginning to suspect that you can’t.


57 posted on 03/07/2010 1:49:25 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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