On 01-21-98, KEITH KNAPP declared to MARK FORNOFF:
KK>I'm afraid Mr Jefferson might disagree with you there.  Here he was
KK>writing in the context of the Enlightenment, in which it was
KK>acknowledged that such thinkers as Galileo and Newton had produced
KK>ideas that outraged the orthodox Christianity of their time, yet
KK>actual observation had borne them out:
They outraged, not Christianity, but their scientist peers and
academics, who then used the power the Church had at the time in
attempts to discredit them and their discoveries.  The Church didn't
think up charges against Galileo on its own, scientists and academia
brought those charges to the Church and the willing actors in it who
then ran with with them, aided by Galileo's abrasive approach.  Had they
a Supreme Court like ours at their disposal they would've used it to the
same end in much the same way.  We see similar being done today to
insure ideas contrary to evolution, and anyone who dares espouse such
ideas, are discredited and scorned, and most certainly never, ever,
taught to anyone in public schools.
Neither Galileo or Newton believed their discoveries contradicted
scripture, and in fact, their discoveries were not a contradiction of
them.  The idea that the earth was the center of the universe is NOT in
scripture, nor was heliocentrism ever declared a heresy.  That idea came
from the likes of Aristotle, "Master of Those Who Know", whose ideas
were accepted by the scientists of the time, and they in turn corrupted
the Church with those same ideas.  We suffer similar in our time.
Bob     /\-/\   - proud Ilk   homebody@galstar.com
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