[net.origins] Creationism in schools

brian@digi-g.UUCP (Merlyn Leroy) (10/16/84)

<Thou Shalt Not Munch Thy News>

    One of the problems I have with creationism being taught in public
schools is the batting average of creationism's proponents.  If today's
astronomy was the same as in Galileo's time, you can bet the creationists
would want the Geocentric model of the solar system taught alongside the
Heliocentric model.  Of course, they admit when they are wrong.  Galileo was
found innocent of heresy just a couple of years ago.
						Merlyn Leroy

(Ultimate Battle of the Network Stars: 
    Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" vs. Walter Cronkite's "Universe")

alan@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Alan Algustyniak) (10/22/84)

<A man without a fish is like...  >

>
> Galileo was
> found innocent of heresy just a couple of years ago.
>

To my knowledge, the Catholic Church has not found Galileo innocent of
anything.  Just last year the Pope, in talking about this at Fermilab
said that there was a church commission, or some such, still investigating
the matter.  He said, in so many words, that the expected result would be
that there were errors made on both sides.

	sdcrdcf!alan