[Kerberos]

A sampling of some ignorant, reason-deficient Christian fundamentalists:

Yeah, here's a little blurp I found on Copernicus:

The discovery of the New World (rediscovery actually) would finally put an end to the Biblical flat earth once and for all. Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1573) would abandon the Christian idea of forcing the facts to fit the Bible and let the facts stand for themselves. He shattered the Christian fundamentalist belief by proving the sun center of the solar system, not the earth with mathematics. His disciple Galileo (1564-1642) invented the telescope and proved the earth circled the sun, moons circled Jupiter, etc. The Christian fundamentalist view of heaven evaporated. (Galileo was forced to recant under death threats, the Catholic Church finally apologized and accepted his findings in 1991.) Religious dogma would never recover.

As I recall Newton wasn't real thrilled with Christian dogma either, but realized it was best to go along so that he didn't end up toast. But I'll have to find some current writings on that.

[Skooz]

Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1573) would abandon the Christian idea of forcing the facts to fit the Bible and let the facts stand for themselves. He shattered the Christian fundamentalist belief by proving the sun center of the solar system, not the earth with mathematics.

Nonsense. The geocentric theory was accepted scientific fact since the time of Ptolemy, before Christ was even born. He "abandoned" no Christian ideas and remained a faithful Christian all of his life.

Your statement about Galileo is also nonsense. The Catholic Church employed many astronomers, several of whom concluded the very same findings as Galileo. The Church persecuted Galileo not because of his discoveries, but in his insistence on spreading the news before the Church thought the masses were ready. Not an entirely progressive position to be sure, but to say that "The Christian fundamentalist view of heaven evaporated" is ludicrous and demonstrates a chronic lack of historical knowledge.

As I recall Newton wasn't real thrilled with Christian dogma either...

You recall wrong. Newton remained a deeply commited Christian for his entire life.

It is obvious you just have a twisted view of Christianity and it clouds your judgement. You are so consumed with hate that you have to make things up about those of whom you have no knowlege whatsoever.