To: Mr. Silverback
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.
13 posted on
12/04/2003 11:36:43 AM PST by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: Doctor Stochastic
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.
14 posted on
12/04/2003 11:42:15 AM PST by
mcg1969
To: Doctor Stochastic
"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
19 posted on
12/04/2003 11:55:24 AM PST by
Varda
To: Doctor Stochastic
"AUC" means...?
58 posted on
12/04/2003 3:14:47 PM PST by
Mr. Silverback
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