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Old 07-09-2008, 11:00 AM   #30
jinx
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Originally Posted by Pico and ME View Post
..for instance, when Galileo proposed that the earth revolved around the sun. The Church didnt play around...threats like these were handled.
Just a point of order, but the church's reason for the Injunction against Galileo was that he was teaching and gathering evidence (with his shiny new telescope) for Copernicus' heliocentric theory, not that he proposed it himself.
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