First: an old Italian proverb. "You cannot reason with a German, but you can give orders." Second: only argue with a liberal when they are in the right. The more they are in the wrong, the more they become obstinate and intractable.
Galileo's Catholicism does not enter into it. Do you state the Church was right to force him to recant his theories, to prohibit his books and to put him under house arrest for the rest of his life?
Galileo's Catholicism does enter into it. If nothing else, because if he had been born in Scotland, they would probably have burned him alive rather than do nothing worse than stop him publishing. Incidentally, the answer to your question is: "yes, of course the Church was wrong in allowing itself to be stampeded into taking sides in a contention between scientists; and God punished her by letting her take the wrong side."
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Date: 2005-05-18 08:20 pm (UTC)A simple "yes" or "no" will do.
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Date: 2005-05-18 08:40 pm (UTC)