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I was also impressed with the statements made by Pope John Paul II on the Church's relation to science after his directed study on the Galileo affair.

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how big of them. maybe in a couple hundred years the new pope will issue an impressive statement on the Churchs realation to science after his directed study on Darwin and evolution.
it would be nice if they would just not get involved and let knowledge progress rather than activly promoting ignorance when they are demonstrably wrong.

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There is a lot of "common knowledge" floating around which many times amounts to little more than propaganda. imo, it is a good idea to investigate for yourself. The Catholic Church's relationship to Science may not be what you think it is.

It looks like if Galileo had not been such a political idiot he and his theory would have been just fine.

On Galileo


The Catholic Church gets along with Science pretty well today.

On Evolution

Maybe there is more going on than you are aware of.

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fair enough, there probably is a lot of this common knowledge floating around in my head and im quite sure that there is alot more going on than i am aware of. ill even grant u that the relationship between science and the church is whatever u say it is.

but......."it looks like if galileo had not been such a political idiot he and his theory would have been just fine" so he brought it on himself then. anyways, since when is anyones political deftness a determining factor in whether something is true or not.