Making mistakes/owning mistakes Is the Pope Making the Galileo Mistake "He that is giddy thinks the world turns round." W. Shakespeare Galileo's insult to the Pope ended in a trial for disobedience (not heresy). Galileo was convicted and sentenced to house arrest. (If you want a good summary of the trial look for Stillman Drake's [...]
Is the Pope Making the Galileo Mistake
In the previous post about mistakes ( Making mistakes/owning mistakes ) I wrote that one truth about Galileo is that he asked the Church in 1616 to declare as dogma that the earth moved and the sun stood still. Cardinal Robert Bellarmine was alive at this point and had a hand in the response. What the Church [...]
Making mistakes/owning mistakes
A few weeks ago my husband and I were out driving on a street with two lanes each way. At a major intersection we were in the left lane but planning to go straight and we were behind two other cars also going straight. In the right lane next to us was a car with [...]
Writing thoughts
Last year in November I tried the experiment of doing Nanowrimo which is short for National Novel Writing Month. The challenge is to write 1700 words every day during November. The Nanowrimo website is set up to let you track your words and sends encouraging messages along with an internet sticker that says you are [...]
Twenty constants
I went to hear Steve Hemler of the CAINA discuss scientific proofs for the existence of God. He did a great job of presenting the proof from the fine-tuning of the universal constants. Next week he is doing a presentation on Evolution and Creation. I especially appreciated his comment that anyone is still free to [...]
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