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Article #4292Re: The Flat Earth? - Conclusion
From: Roger M. Wilcox
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 00:00
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 00:00
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In article <3sladd$m2g@news.wwa.com> vision@wwa.com (Richard Harvey) writes:
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>The Bible has always said the world was round...
>If the catholic Pope would have read his Bible instead of prsecuting
>gallilleo, he would not have given christianity a bad nam...
The Catholics in Galileo's time believed in the Aristotelian model of the
universe, in which the Earth was, in fact, round. What they admonished
Galileo for was his expoundments on the Copernican model of the universe,
which put the sun at the center. Flat-Earthism never entered into the
picture -- only heliocentrism (which is a totally different issue) did.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f66d0,bd5c6f53c27c37d X-Google-Attributes: gidf66d0,public X-Google-Thread: fc158,bd5c6f53c27c37d X-Google-Attributes: gidfc158,public X-Google-Thread: f44bc,bd5c6f53c27c37d X-Google-Attributes: gidf44bc,public X-Google-Thread: 10b363,bd5c6f53c27c37d X-Google-Attributes: gid10b363,public X-Google-Thread: 1038c2,bd5c6f53c27c37d X-Google-Attributes: gid1038c2,public X-Google-Thread: f74ae,bd5c6f53c27c37d X-Google-Attributes: gidf74ae,public X-Google-Thread: 10f18e,bd5c6f53c27c37d X-Google-Attributes: gid10f18e,public From: rogerw@cisco.com (Roger M. Wilcox) Subject: Re: The Flat Earth? - Conclusion Date: 1995/06/26 Message-ID: <3sngak$jrc@cronkite.cisco.com> X-Deja-AN: 105161760 references: <3s6f2t$9ed@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> <3s7eeq$1kb5@sernews.raleigh.ibm.com> <3sladd$m2g@news.wwa.com> organization: cisco Systems, Inc., Menlo Park, Ca. newsgroups: sci.astro,talk.origins,sci.anthropology,alt.sci.physics.new-theories,sci.skeptic,aus.religion,alt.religion.christian