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Subject: Re: Re: Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
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Date: Tue, 22-Jan-85 17:34:00 EST
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/***** uokvax:net.religion / mhuxt!js2j / 10:40 am  Jan 17, 1985 */
Arndt apologizes for the persecution of Galileo:
>   These men, in the Church, did nothing more
> or less than members of scientific bodies have done many times in the
> course of history and will likely do into the future.  Argue and make

    When else in the history of science have one of the proponents of rival
scientific theories tried to use the legal system to 'prove' (or at least
or at least prevent the other theory from being heard) their own theories?
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That's not all. They also showed him the rack and other instruments of
persuasion--just showed him. That was enough. (Far be it from me to
imply cowardice or anything of the sort on Galileo's part--I should be
a tenth the man he was...)

					James Jones