Monday, June 01, 2009

Freedom ...

... Liberation theology. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

One of the things "common knowledge" gets wrong about the Galileo case is that the Church at the time subscribed to the consensus among scientists of the day, which preferred Tycho Brahe's model of the solar system to that of Copernicus. Tycho was, after all, the greatest astronomer of his day and one of the greatest ever. Got to to be careful about those scientific consensuses.

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