> Jack Sargeant@1:379/12 wrote on the 12.02.98 about
 > "Skeptics are sometimes wrong":
 > JS>Galileo was persecuted by the skepics in the church. 400 years after
 > JS>he was tormented, kept under house arrest, and otherwise ruined, he
 > JS>was eventually vindicated, and his beliefs upheld.
 > What kind of skeptics were there in the church? They were no
 > skeptics
 > but believers. If they had been skeptics, they would have tested his
 >
 > evidence, tried out his experiments with the pendulum, looked
 > through
 > his telescope to see the moons of Jupiter, the rings of saturn, they
 >
 > would have tested the evidence and made their conclusions.
 > They ignored the evidence, and didnīt test it. Thatīs no skepticism
 > but exactly the opposite.
I direct you to your nearest dictionary. Don't leave home without it.
1. Skeptic: One who habitually doubts, questions, or disagrees.
2. Skeptic: One inclined to skepticism in philosophical or religious
matters.
js
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