On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 19:48:47 -0400, HarryKrause wrote:

artfulbodger wrote:
Glenn Ashmore wrote:

It was the religious right that insisted it was flat and that the
Earth was the center of the universe.


Dude, there was no such thing as the "religious right" back then. One of
the easiest ways to get way off track in discussing history is to apply
labels from X place and time to the events in Y place and time. There
was a huge, complex thing going on in church, state and science during
the flat-earth controversy, almost none of which is even analogous to
what's going on today. The categories don't fit.

Sorry 'bout that.



In the 17th Century, the religious right imprisoned Galileo because his
writings contradicted, among other things, that the earth was the center
of the universe, a theory posited before Galileo by Copernicus.

There are many examples of "the religious right" standing in the way of
science. The crazy christian republicans and their simple-minded
sheeples are only the latest example.

Do the religious left fall into these categories also?
--
John H

"All decisions are the result of binary thinking."