| Re: Vatican: It's OK to believe in aliens
I guess I would wonder, again, why one would spend so much time and energy attacking religion's role in "suppressing science".
You've inspired me to reread my notes on Galileo and the Church's position on the Copernican view of heliocentricity.
The Church consistently protected/defended Galileo against fellow scientists/churchmen who did want to attack him, up to the time Galileo was caught plagiarizing his stuff. And when Galileo didn't know enough about his "work" to defend it, the stuff hit the fan. Especially since Galileo was extremely hyper-aggressive about attacking others for plagiarizing HIS stuff.
So the church remanded him to house arrest, but encouraged the continued study of the Copernican system.
This isn't quite the great big ogre that the church is painted, in accordance with Conventional Wisdom, and modern education.
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