| Apostrovich said: Galileo was forced to recant his view, all of his books were outlawed/burned, and he was put under house arrest for the rest of his life. Regardless of how anyone thinks that might have helped him, that is a severely dickish way to deal with someone who used nothing but factual information and observation in his theories. Also, he was a christian, and the arguments they used against him were.... Oh, and heliocentrism remained heretical and all of his books remained officially banned in the Index Librorum Prohibitorum from 1633 to 1737, and there was no apology for any of this until 1992, when Pope John Paul II expressed "regret" over imprisoning a faithful christian for his entire life. Oh, and anyone who thinks that it was beneficial to him, he only managed to get out of prison and under house arrest by befriending a bishop. Otherwise he's have probably remained in actual prison. |
ummhh...Yeah they were all burned and destroyed and that's why we still know his name and read his books today. Besides I didn't actually say this was a good thing(or beneficial to him). I said it might possibly make him more productive, anyone forced to give up a social life and be locked in your house would force you to write and work more there. Again I'm not claiming the church is right, it's horrible what was done, but the church, I don't consider it a religious entity, remember they were burning people alive left and right who tried to read the bible, yes, people who were translating the bible out of latin so people can actually read it, were being killed for it, in fact they were burned with the bible hung from their chest. Does that sound like God fearing religious people? There is a reason Michaelangelo painted the pope in hell. Everything about everything they did was condemed by their own faith, it was just another form of government instilling fear into people so they can control them and exert their own power on the world. It's done in many forms.
And not for nothing even though no one is being killed or enprisoned for it, it's not easy to be a scientist with a new idea. But it's not religion that your fighting against. Please if your a scientist with a new understanding of something your going to get a lot of flack about it by the science community, and if it goes against politically charged concepts then you might lose your job for it. There has been well respected editors that have lost their jobs and that have been threatened because of unpopular beliefs.
I also find it funny that people think your an idiot if you don't believe what your taught in school, like evolution, or global warming, which we're told almost all scientists believe, yet most people don't acccept other ideas like there are infinite parallel worlds and other versions of ourselves on these other universes. Yet that's universally accepted now in science.
