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<blockquote data-quote="mugsy" data-source="post: 2695585" data-attributes="member: 18914"><p>If you would like to read an interesting, albeit kind of lengthy, discussion of the real issues involving Galileo versus the "Big bad Church picks on poor virtuous scientist" drivel that you are often fed in school or on discussion boards, try this:</p><p><a href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/galileo/#4" target="_blank">http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/galileo/#4</a></p><p>There is a fairly good discussion of how the Holy Office - Cardinal Bellarmine specifically - evaluated what Galileo proposed as physical evidence backing up his theory. The entry discusses the evidence fairly dispassionately. The real issue was how is truth decided and who gets to make declarations of what is now "truth" versus theory or speculation. </p><p></p><p>For those who believe that we are so much beyond that because "real" scientists work based on evidence now, try watching the man-made global warming discussions. Note what happens to those who buck a certain politico-scientific orthodoxy that has developed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mugsy, post: 2695585, member: 18914"] If you would like to read an interesting, albeit kind of lengthy, discussion of the real issues involving Galileo versus the "Big bad Church picks on poor virtuous scientist" drivel that you are often fed in school or on discussion boards, try this: [URL="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/galileo/#4"]http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/galileo/#4[/URL] There is a fairly good discussion of how the Holy Office - Cardinal Bellarmine specifically - evaluated what Galileo proposed as physical evidence backing up his theory. The entry discusses the evidence fairly dispassionately. The real issue was how is truth decided and who gets to make declarations of what is now "truth" versus theory or speculation. For those who believe that we are so much beyond that because "real" scientists work based on evidence now, try watching the man-made global warming discussions. Note what happens to those who buck a certain politico-scientific orthodoxy that has developed. [/QUOTE]
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