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From: garys@bunker.UUCP (Gary M. Samuelson)
Newsgroups: net.origins,net.sci
Subject: Re: Did Galileo disobey the Church?
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Date: Tue, 18-Mar-86 16:57:07 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 18 16:57:07 1986
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Reply-To: garys@bunker.UUCP (Gary M. Samuelson)
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Summary: 

In article <442@3comvax.UUCP> michaelm@3comvax.UUCP (Michael McNeil) writes:
>In article <18300001@iuvax.UUCP> kitchel@iuvax.UUCP (Sid Kitchel) writes:

I enjoyed reading Michael McNeil's article on the trial of Galileo.
Unfortunately, not content with presenting facts, he has to stoop
to the following:

>>Our world (luckily) is much brighter than Galileo's.  
>>Evolution does not challenge church authority.
>
>Try telling that to quite a few (fundamentalist) churches!  They would
>love to be able to tell evolutionists to shut up, too -- and then burn
>us at the stake for heresy (as Giordano Bruno was burned in 1600) or
>threaten us with torture (as Galileo was threatened) if we didn't!  

>Michael McNeil

Can we expect that he will document the above charge as well as he
documented the mistreatment of Galileo Galillei?  Is h going to
post his 400 lines of quotes showing that "quite a few fundamentalist
churches" want to burn anyone at the stake or threaten anyone with
torture?

Gary Samuelson