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sichase@csa1.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE) writes:

>I think that the Vatican statement is more general than you imply. The 
>point is not that the Church now accepts that the world is Galilean. Rather,
>it conceeds that physics is the right tool for understanding the physical
>world, and that the Church should not get involved in deciding whether or 
>not a particular cosmology is right or wrong.  

So they won't resist against the inflation model were the big bang was
created from an instable false vacuum, where no gods are needed any more
for the creation of the universe?

>The statement accurately explains that Christians should not confuse
>Faith with the belief in any particular out-dated cosmology.  

When you are a kind of person which beleives in an out-dated concept of
gods, I think you can also more easily believe in an out-dated cosmology.

>I think that this is a very positive attitude, and hope that the 
>Pat Buchannans and Pat Robertsons of the world take it to heart.

Who are that? Some of your ``famous'' TV-prayers?
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