chrisnice --
"u stated it probably would have been accepted by the church if galileo werent such a prickly fellow."
What got him in trouble was when he started interpreting scripture. The Church would not allow it, but that was a religious conflict rather than a scientific one. The Pope finally had enough to say Enough when he wrote a piece making the Pope out to be a simpleton personally. That was just too prickly.
chrisnice --
"science "in the christian west" was in its darkest days when the catholic church was running things as compared to any other period of "in the christian west"....except maybe today in kansas and georgia."
Science was just getting off the ground when the Catholic Church was running things. What really held it back were the scientific Aristotilians in Academia. Did you notice that it was the Calvinists who persecuted Keplar and it was the Catholic Church who sought to protect him?
As far as Kansas and Georgia go I've never been there. But did you see this post by Toffler about South Carolina? Kind of sad and kind of scarry.
South Carolina
I don't think he's talking about Liberal Christians in that area.
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