[Doctor Stochastic]

The round-Earth was known to the non-Judeo-Christian Aristophanes about 400 AUC anyway. Of course, Galileo isn't mentioned in the article nor is the church's response to Copernicus.

[mcg1969]

First, read that article about the "Copernican cliche'" I posted previously. It doesn't explain away the Catholic church's response to his work by any means, but it is an interesting revision of the history nonetheless.

Secondly, I would claim that exceptions such as Galileo and Copernicus were just that, exceptions. The church's intransigence over certain individual ideas hardly prevented them from supporting or encouraging a wide range of scientific pursuits (or just staying out of the way of them).

Heck, the chairmain of my Electrical Engineering department in undergrad was a young-earth creationist.

[Varda]

"the church's response to Copernicus" ???

What do you consider the churches response to Copernicus to have been? Is it different than what's in this article?

Nicolaus Copernicus -http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04352b.htm

[Mr. Silverback]

"AUC" means...?