Mystery Solved!

Discussion (7) ¬

1. 
   Elfguy

   May 10, 2012 at 9:27 am | # | Reply

   Thought for a while there that you’ld been shipwrecked on a deserted island somewhere with Gilligan…

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     zack

     May 10, 2012 at 8:55 pm | # | Reply

     Yeah, I am really sorry about that. Trust me, the hiatus was not planned…
2. 
   RealityCheck

   May 11, 2012 at 2:16 am | # | Reply

   Actually, what happened to Galileo wasn’t due to him saying the earth revolved around the sun, but due to the fact that he made enemies among the scholarly set—- and because he was a prat.

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     Elfguy

     May 12, 2012 at 1:03 am | # | Reply

     What he actually observed was that there were moons orbiting Jupiter, which contradicted the Church’s doctrine that the Earth was the center of everything.

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       Elfguy

       May 12, 2012 at 10:55 am | # | Reply

       Though putting the Pope’s arguments for an earth centered universe in the mouth of a character named “Simplico” (Simpleton) in his “Dialog” book may have been less than prudent.
3. 
   Maltor Drey

   July 27, 2012 at 8:36 am | # | Reply

   Hmm. I have to disagree with this. If religion is true (and I believe it is) then analytical thinking should strengthen it.

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     Myself

     September 20, 2012 at 5:20 pm | # | Reply

     Should, and in some cases, does. However, most places where analytical thinking is taught are also places where people are indoctrinated into materialism. If, just as you are learning to think analytically, you are also being told over and over that there is no God or gods, is it any surprise that you come to doubt the supernatural?

     Also, if someone in the scientific community *did* have such an experience, do you really think he would go telling it to a radio announcer? At most, it would become the subject of a scientific paper, which would then be forgotten. Scientists do not appeal directly to public opinion. Any so-called scientist who is trying to sell the public on something that has not been proven scientifically has abandoned research ethics and is a joke.