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Old September 12th 18, 07:07 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
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Default Neil DeGrasse Tyson headed down same loony road as Carl Sagan?

Gerald Kelleher wrote in
:

The only question worth answering is


"How can Gerald Kelleher able to walk and breathe at the same time,
given how ****ing stupid he is?

one the Pope asked ,even in
an oblique way, at least if recent commentaries are correct -

Here lurked the danger of serious misunderstanding. Maffeo
Barberini, while he was a Cardinal, had counselled Galileo


Tyson's hate propaganda wasn't about Galileo, it was about Giardano
Bruno, who was, indeed, burned at the stake after being driven out
of every violent, extremists splinter group of Christianity he
could find for being a violent, extremist asshole, then returning
to Catholic terrirory, and continuiong his violent, extremist ways.
His version of heliocentrism wasn't even remotely connected to
Copernicus' work, and wasn't in any way a factor in his execution.

No matter what lies Tyson deliberately fostered.

to
treat Copernicanism as a hypothesis, not as a confirmed truth.


Which is, in fact, what it was at that point. It couldn't be
confirmed until Newton invented calculus. And the ptolemaic tables
produces more accurate predictions of planetary movements that
Galileo's equations did (mostly because Galileo didn't guite get
that orbits were elliptical).

And Galileo's real problem wasn't heliocentrism (which was
published by Copernicus, on his death bed, at the express requrest
of a Cardinal and a Bishop, who felt it was too important to *not*
publish, and with the explicit permission of the Pope, to whom it
was dedicated), his problem was that he, too, was an asshole who
****ed off the wrong people. Heliocentrism had more support from
Church astronomers than secular anyway.

Chris, being a Chris (and therefore profoundly stupid and mentally
deranged) will, of course, lie about all this, but you're even
stupid and more deranged than he is, so you won't understand, and
will reply with yet another mindless, gibbering, incoherent stream
of delusional tripe.

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