[BlueDragon]

This is the rut Fundamentalists get into because the intellectual tradition is beyond their grasp.

You keep telling yourself that. Whattsamatta'? Feeling a bit insecure?

[daniel1212]

Such appeal to the historical weight of intellectual tradition is what lead to Galileo being censored for challenging the established view of geocentrism. And which some RCs yet contend for, even stating

three Popes (Paul V, Urban VIII and Alexander VII) have officially declared that heliocentrism is opposed to Sacred Scripture, and condemned the notion that heliocentrism was a truth to be believed with certainty. http://www.patheos.com/blogs/deaconsbench/2011/08/galileo-was-wrong-the-church-was-right/

Galileo was wrong, the church was right: theologians attempting to defend the Church by arguing that the condemnation of Galileo did not engage the Church’s authority or impose an obligation in conscience on the faithful to hold geocentrism as true have of course laid themselves open to the argument of liberal Catholics or would-be Catholics that they are therefore free to reject other decrees of the Holy See on any topic from scriptural interpretation to the immorality of contraception.” — http://www.catholicintl.com/galileowaswrong/index.html

Like some other pages on this site, that one has since been expunged, but it is easily documented that this was/is the view of Sungenis and others,. apparently including the infamous Scripture wresting "scripturecatholic" (http://www.scripturecatholic.com/geocentrism.html) some RC here uncritically cut abnd paste from.