Re: Galileo was wrong!
John Garcia <[email protected]>
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On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 6:21 PM, John Garcia <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >