-=> Quoting Heiko Diekmann to Jack Sargeant <=-
 HD> Jack Sargeant@1:379/12 wrote on the 12.02.98 about 
 HD> "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.
 HD> What kind of skeptics were there in the church? They were no skeptics 
 HD> but believers. If they had been skeptics, they would have tested his 
 HD> evidence, tried out his experiments with the pendulum, looked through 
 HD> his telescope to see the moons of Jupiter, the rings of saturn, they 
 HD> would have tested the evidence and made their conclusions.
 HD> They ignored the evidence, and didnot test it. Thatos no skepticism 
 HD> but exactly the opposite.
 
    Heiko,
         Have you ever heard of the expression "Ignore it and maybe it 
will  go  away".  The  skeptical churches  did not  test out  theories 
because of the chance the man would be correct and it would  upset the 
status quo, and make them all look like idiots.......
Happy Trails,
Fred.
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