Re: Galileo was wrong!

2011-08-30 Thread Nick Arnett
The whole point of religion... depends a great deal on the person! I would complete the sentence in part by saying that religion helps me live with what I know cannot be explained, fixed or understood. It does seem that we are going through a time when an increasing number of people are turning th

Re: Galileo was wrong!

2011-08-29 Thread John Garcia
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 6:21 PM, John Garcia wrote: > On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Dan Minette wrote: > >> >A few Catholics still insist Galileo was wrong - latimes.com >> >> It was a ROTFLMAO piece for me. It was really fun to see how both Notre >> Dame >> and the Vatican Observatory were i

Re: Galileo was wrong!

2011-08-29 Thread John Garcia
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Dan Minette wrote: > >A few Catholics still insist Galileo was wrong - latimes.com > > It was a ROTFLMAO piece for me. It was really fun to see how both Notre > Dame > and the Vatican Observatory were in the "are these guy real?" mode. I gave > my first paper at a

Re: Galileo was wrong!

2011-08-28 Thread John Williams
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Dan Minette wrote: > It's funny, when you think about it.  A Protestant can rail against every > other church and found his own church.  But if you're an ultraconservative > Catholic, how in the world do you argue that the Pope is dead wrong on the > important iss

RE: Galileo was wrong!

2011-08-28 Thread Dan Minette
>A few Catholics still insist Galileo was wrong - latimes.com It was a ROTFLMAO piece for me. It was really fun to see how both Notre Dame and the Vatican Observatory were in the "are these guy real?" mode. I gave my first paper at a high energy physics symposium at Notre Dame, and saw the head of