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Return to E-mail Discussion page Previous in threadNext in thread ---------- From: "John Addis" <john.addis@lecroy.com> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 14:42:03 -0800 Subject: Re: science and your choices > I think the largest influences are those which are old and long standing. For > example, in 1231, Pope Gregory IX published a decree which called for life > imprisonment with salutary penance for the heretic who had confessed and > repented and capital punishment for those who persisted. The Pope is no longer > able to imprison or burn at the stake because secular governments took his > power away from him. > > In 1633 the Catholic Church tried Galileo Galilee and imprisoned him for > declaring that Earth was not the center of the Universe (or more properly for > defiance of the Church). Had it not been for the relentless progress of > science, the pope likely would not have lost the power to inhibit pursuit of > knowledge. It is hard to imagine the effect of science unless we realize that > we would still be living in the dark ages, for that is what living without > knowledge and science was and would be. Some still fight science, but it is a > loosing battle for science is plastic, it will go where knowledge leads it. |
