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