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Well, I see a lot of cases where people "believe what they want to believe" when it comes to interpreting observations and such. It really doesn't surprise me that some churches still advocate the Earth at the center of the solar system. It just gets me a bit when people who don't have much grip on ...

Early on, before Copernicus, Galileo and other famous astronomers, it was widely held that all celestial bodies must be perfect spheres traveling in perfect circular orbits, since anything Heavenly must be perfect. Then, as stargazing records got more accurate, astronomers found that this perfect ci...

It's important to note that both religious philosophers and scientists have a common goal: To discover Truth, or as much of it as humans are capable of finding. Science has embarrased organized religion many times, proving, for example, that the Sun is the center of the solar system instead of the E...

Wow.. I'm glad some folks took the time to respond. I can see why there's so much argument when someone gets called a Liberal or a Conservative, people have so many different definitions of the words it's hard to know what each of them means!

Hello, just stopping by to drop in my 2 cents. First off, I've never really followed the Abstract Art scene, so I'm no expert on whatever Earlier Modern thought is supposed to be. I do have a fairly good education overall though, so calling it "a towering philosophical edifice that seems to dominate...