Thony Christie Interview - The Galileo Affair Part 2
History for Atheists
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The Foscorini Letter is brilliant
robert bellamin, popeto bellmino, isn'ti an a sort of read foscerini's letter. And he wrote a reply. It's one of the most brilliant pieces of diplomatic compromise between tween theology and science that has ever been written. He basically says, look, we've got this situation. You have a hypothesis for which there is absolutely no proof. So treat it as a is, you won't have any problems. Presented t as a theory, i'm using modern terminology, presentit as truth,. As a theory, you can have problems for the church if somebody should find proof for this hypothesis - then we will have to reinterpret scripture
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