It took the Catholic Church 360 years to apologize to Galileo, who
spent the last ten years of his life under house arrest by the
Inquisition because he was bold enough to say the earth revolved
around the sun.  At least he was spared the fate of Giordano Bruno,
who was burned at the stake.  You don't need Nazi references to
describe the history of the war between science and religion.

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Robert Munn <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> What's next burning physicists at the stake? putting biologists in
>> concentration camps? Given the extreme rhetoric of the right wing its
>> not too unbelievable.
>
> Why not just get it over with and call them Nazis? Then we can banish
> yet another thread for silly Nazi references.

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