Comparing Bush to Galileo was meant as a joke, Scrat, right?
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Thu 11 Mar, 2004 04:37 pm
Walter Hinteler wrote:
Scrat wrote:
Galileo didn't require that the Pope recognize the correctness of his position in order for his position to be correct.
Maffeo Barberini (Pope Urban VIII) was an great admirer of Gallileo's intelligence and sharp wit. Both were kind of friends.
Upon Barberini' s ascendance of the papal throne, in 1623, Galileo came to Rome and had six interviews with the new Pope. It was at these meetings that Galileo was given permission to write about the Copernican theory, as long as he treated it as a hypothesis.
Excellent information, Walter.
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Thu 11 Mar, 2004 04:38 pm
D'artagnan wrote:
Comparing Bush to Galileo was meant as a joke, Scrat, right?
I did not compare Bush to Galileo. I mentioned Galileo to point out that whether others agree or do not is neither proof nor disproof of the correctness of one's position.
I mentioned Galileo to point out that whether others agree or do not is neither proof nor disproof of the correctness of one's position.
