Re: Galileo was wrong!
John Garcia <[email protected]>
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On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Dan Minette <[email protected]> wrote: > >A few Catholics still insist Galileo was wrong - latimes.com > > It was a ROTFLMAO piece for me. It was really fun to see how both Notre > Dame > and the Vatican Observatory were in the "are these guy real?" mode. I gave > my first paper at a high energy physics symposium at Notre Dame, and saw > the > head of the Vatican Observatory and Steven Weinberg give a presentation on > Science and Faith together. > > It's funny, when you think about it. A Protestant can rail against every > other church and found his own church. But if you're an ultraconservative > Catholic, how in the world do you argue that the Pope is dead wrong on the > important issues? Liberal Catholics can be anti-traditional, but how can > you be an ubertraditonalist that says tradition is horribly wrong. :-) > > Dan M. > > > Simple, you argue that he is not the real Pope, but an Anti-Pope ;-) john who had 12 years of Catholic education and always thought that Galileo had a raw deal