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Re: NEWS: Galileo Cleared of Heresy Charges by Vatican

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From: Cameron Randale Bass
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 18:40
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In article <6203@tuegate.tue.nl> johan@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl (Johan Wevers) writes:
>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?

      Please keep your particular religion out of science, it
      has no place there.  Since there can always be a time *before* you
      have any kind of false vacuum, bang or inflation, this discussion 
      simply *invites* consideration of initial conditions set up by 'gods'.

                           dale bass
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