04-24-2007, 01:27 PM
[quote cbelt3]unfortunately over two thousand years, the Church has become somewhat slow in responding. After all, they're still arguing about threatening Galileo, and he's been dead for a rather long time.
Yeah, they were pretty slow. They make gov't bureaucrats like me look positively speedy. Galileo was officially forgiven in 1992:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg13618460.600-vatican-admits-galileo-was-right-.html
Thankfully, the Church has had the sense to come down firmly against the fundies and their creationism nonsense.
Yeah, they were pretty slow. They make gov't bureaucrats like me look positively speedy. Galileo was officially forgiven in 1992:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg13618460.600-vatican-admits-galileo-was-right-.html
Thankfully, the Church has had the sense to come down firmly against the fundies and their creationism nonsense.