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What's funny (but not "ha-ha" funny) in all this is that, to the extent Galileo was persecuted, he was persecuted for erring from Ptolemy, not the Bible.

11 posted on 02/20/2009 5:26:04 AM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (Nihil utile nisi quod honestum - Marcus Tullius Cicero)

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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

What's funny (but not "ha-ha" funny) in all this is that, to the extent Galileo was persecuted, he was persecuted for erring from Ptolemy, not the Bible.

To the extent...it was a very, very small extent. And it was because he made a pledge and reneged on it. He didn't have to make the pledge.

12 posted on 02/20/2009 5:28:47 AM PST by aruanan

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