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To: snarks_when_bored

Galileo could have gone even further if his own devout Catholicism-which was unwavering in spite of his being persecuted by those he trusted the most-held him back from coming up with a theory of gravitation. Similarly Cuivier, the greatest biologist between Linnaeus and Darwin, might have come up with the theory of evolution if his own pious Christianity hadn't prevented him from doing so.


54 posted on 12/07/2005 9:18:11 AM PST by RightWingAtheist (Free the Crevo Three!)
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To: RightWingAtheist

Good points. And, as a young man, Darwin was himself a pious believer; had his curiosity and his intellect been weaker, he might never have recognized what his eyes and his notebooks were telling him during and after the voyage of the Beagle.


55 posted on 12/07/2005 9:30:12 AM PST by snarks_when_bored
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