[GodGunsGuts]

May I suggest you read the following, as it will most certainly alter your thinking on what went down re: the Galileo affair:

http://creation.com/the-galileo-affair-history-or-heroic-hagiography

[Rafterman]

May I suggest you read the following, as it will most certainly alter your thinking on what went down re: the Galileo affair

Thanks for the link... I'll take a look at it; but I highly doubt that it will change my mind, as the excerpt above is from the recorded minutes of the Roman Inquisition, and is very clear to me.

But I will take a look.

[Rafterman]

Again, our disagreement re: Galileo notwithstanding, one does not throw out the baby with the bathwater. Scientific validity will stand on it's own, regardless of the religious beliefs of the researcher or even those of society at large.

Copernicus' De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium was denounced by the Church three years after it's publication, and was banned in 1615. Galileo was convicted as a heretic and his books banned. Both books remained on the Church's list of banned books for over 200 years, but their scientific discoveries have withstood the tests of both time and censure, and both men were validated in the end.

It's also interesting to note that Sir Isaac Newton was a very religious man, although perhaps not in the conventional sense, as he did not believe in the Holy Trinity. Do Newton's religious beliefs somehow make the fundamentals of gravity more scientifically valid?

[Natural Law]

"May I suggest you read the following, as it will most certainly alter your thinking on what went down re: the Galileo affair:"

It won't matter how many credible sources you post or link to. GGG will always trot out some posting from dubious site like creation.com written by someone who got their Doctor of Divinity degree in night school from the South Tulsa School of Creation and Diesel Maintenance to "trump" the original data.