July 28th, 2004, 07:30 AM
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Re: OT: Jibjab, Politics, the Big Bang and more!
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Originally posted by Zapmeister:
Certainly, the Greeks knew it was round and the flat earth was not the reason Galileo was persecuted.
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It was for heresy. The following Catholic page The Galileo Controversy has an excellent overview of it, despite playing semantic games about it being for heresy.
EDIT: offending the pope is heresy, since it goes against Catholic dogma, and by definition, violating dogma is heresy.
[ July 28, 2004, 06:33: Message edited by: Arryn ] |