Galileo was not convicted of "heresy" and that is FACT...

| Register

Galileo was not convicted of "heresy" and that is FACT...

Author: GOAT (3793 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 5:25 pm on Mar 26, 2009

View All

..perhaps a technical distinction, but nonetheless A FACT...you won't find it in the official pronouncement...

...You've oversold the idea of his physical persecution...

...I have already retracted my statement regarding protestant scientists pushing for Galileo's
demise...because I can't currently prove it...nor can you currently DISPROVE it...like Galileo, I beleive some things are obvious...it does nothing to discredit my assertion that his harshest critics
were his colleagues...did they provide him with a luxury apartment and continued resources to prove his theory?...You are entitled to your opinion...we disagree on the facts...no sense beating it to death...

I have a dinner with friends...Cheers!

Replies to: "Galileo was not convicted of "heresy" and that is FACT..."

22nd-most important catholic figure in No. Indiana to boycott commencement [LINK] - Chris94 - 6:25pm 3/25/09 (58) [View All]
- I always think of the Monty Python song "Every Sperm is Sacred" when the stem cell argument starts [LINK] - ND_in_ATL - 11:10pm 3/25/09
- Interesting how you don't mock Islamic believers like you do Catholics. [NT] - Killshot - 10:12pm 3/25/09
  - And Jewish people have a green light to make jokes about Jewish people - Chris94 - 11:27pm 3/25/09
    - I thought you were a devout follower of Obama, the great uniter, no? - TheIrishHammer - 4:51am 3/26/09
  - Why mock pagans they're already going to hell? - Hibakusha - 11:02pm 3/25/09
- Are you aware that adult stem cells work better than embryo stem cells? - StoneFingers - 9:25pm 3/25/09
  - This is an anti-stem cell guy disagreeing. [NT] [LINK] - NDFaninNJ - 10:31am 3/26/09
    - Where do you see a disagreement? - StoneFingers - 11:22am 3/26/09
      - Actually, he said "could" work, not "can" work. [NT] - NDFaninNJ - 11:36am 3/26/09
  - Are you aware that, if they did, there would be no issue? - Chris94 - 11:25pm 3/25/09
    - Astounding - StoneFingers - 11:38pm 3/25/09
  - Depends on a case by case basis - ND_in_ATL - 11:00pm 3/25/09
    - That doesn't seem to be true anymore [LINK] - StoneFingers - 11:26pm 3/25/09
- Yeah, once you decide to rip a child from mom's womb, you gotta be considerate of others... [NT] - GOAT - 7:05pm 3/25/09
- It's time to embrace the fact that you and Mac, to name a couple, are not Catholic. - TheIrishHammer - 6:37pm 3/25/09
  - I guess we'll have plenty of time to work out who is right and wrong in Purgatory...See you there! [NT] - ND_in_ATL - 11:01pm 3/25/09
    - I am destined to sit on the right hand of the Father........ - TheIrishHammer - 4:52am 3/26/09
    - I hear the board ops there.... - ripperduck - 2:11am 3/26/09
    - I love Purgatory...idiot Prods think it doesn't exist. I laugh at them while I count my Indulgences! [NT] - Hibakusha - 11:04pm 3/25/09
- The opposition to stem cell research is comically ridiculous. It is actually anti-life. - NDFaninNJ - 6:32pm 3/25/09
  - Ridiculous assertion...The Church absolutely does not want to waste embryos... - GOAT - 6:58pm 3/25/09
    - Well, the IVF process creates extra embryos and preventing stem cell research wastes them - NDFaninNJ - 7:04pm 3/25/09
      - So don't waste them in the first place, right?... - GOAT - 7:09pm 3/25/09
        So, everyone that goes through IVF should have 8 kids, pick one and give the rest away? - NDFaninNJ - 7:18pm 3/25/09
        No, they should not participate in IVF at all. - SouthCarolinaIrish - 8:27pm 3/25/09
        This is perhaps the stupidest church stance since Galileo - Chris94 - 11:29pm 3/25/09
        Re: This is perhaps the stupidest church stance since Galileo - SouthCarolinaIrish - 9:41am 3/26/09
        The concept of "believing" that which you don't believe is ridiculous. - NDFaninNJ - 10:03am 3/26/09
        It's called faith. [NT] - SouthCarolinaIrish - 1:51pm 3/26/09
        
        It's called faith. [NT] - SouthCarolinaIrish - 1:51pm 3/26/09
        
        Galileo's harshest critics were his fellow scientists... - GOAT - 12:18am 3/26/09
        Seriously? - JacksSmirkingRevenge - 7:44am 3/26/09
        Absolutely... - GOAT - 9:26am 3/26/09
        You are insane - McSweeney - 1:59pm 3/26/09
        Gallileo taught as fact that the Sun was the Center of the Universe... - GOAT - 4:43pm 3/26/09
        
        Two things: - JacksSmirkingRevenge - 9:40am 3/26/09
        Re: Two things: - GOAT - 10:15am 3/26/09
        Uh . . . what? - JacksSmirkingRevenge - 12:47pm 3/26/09
        Sorry this took so long...work beckoned... - GOAT - 3:30pm 3/26/09
        Wrong. [LINK] - JacksSmirkingRevenge - 4:45pm 3/26/09
        Wrong yerself...my issue was that most of his peers thought he was fulla shit... - GOAT - 5:06pm 3/26/09
        Bullshit. - JacksSmirkingRevenge - 5:12pm 3/26/09
        
        Addendum: [LINK] - JacksSmirkingRevenge - 4:57pm 3/26/09
        Wow, that's a revelation...which proves exactly what?... - GOAT - 5:02pm 3/26/09
        When have I ever stated "he was not properly cared for?" - JacksSmirkingRevenge - 5:08pm 3/26/09
        Galileo was not convicted of "heresy" and that is FACT... - GOAT - 5:25pm 3/26/09
        More bullshit. Or should I say goatshit. - JacksSmirkingRevenge - 5:53pm 3/26/09
        Such vulgarity suggests that you are losing all sense of objectivity... - GOAT - 12:33am 3/27/09
        More bullshit. It's all you got. - JacksSmirkingRevenge - 7:26am 3/27/09
        Oh, I don't have to disprove yer Seamus theory... - GOAT - 10:43am 3/27/09
        Not surprised. It's no more idiotic than your statement that scientists pushed for Galileo's death [NT] - JacksSmirkingRevenge - 5:29pm 3/27/09
        Oh, don't sell yerself short, your statement is way more idiotic... - GOAT - 6:11pm 3/27/09
        
        Atomic wedgie... - MAS - 8:16am 3/26/09
        That sounds like Hell. [IMAGE] - JacksSmirkingRevenge - 8:29am 3/26/09
        
        Well get IVF banned, and then we can talk about banning stem cell research - ND_in_ATL - 11:03pm 3/25/09
        This is the exact right result. For now, it is inexcusable (and anti-life) to not use the stem cells [NT] - NDFaninNJ - 9:43am 3/26/09
        
        If interested, see reply to Chris94 above.* [NT] - SouthCarolinaIrish - 9:43am 3/26/09
        
        Yes...let's make sure the embryo is not considered human life...no awful outcome there... - GOAT - 7:33pm 3/25/09