Re: Galileo was wrong!

The whole point of religion... depends a great deal on the person!  I
would complete the sentence in part by saying that religion helps me
live with what I know cannot be explained, fixed or understood. It
does seem that we are going through a time when an increasing number
of people are turning that around, using religion as a reason to deny
what is understood. A convenient "truth," to them!

This past weekend, I was contemplating the idea that religion, at its
best, nurtures elders who have the ability to hold opposing views
simultaneously, rather than being deeply defined by what they are
against. Both-and thinking instead of dualism, to put it another way.

Nick

On 8/29/11, 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
>