Michael Roberts wrote:
.......................
> Winchester is one of the worst and I enclose what I wrote in a review of The
> Map that changed the World.;
>
> ".... He refers to the "church" negatively some
> thirty times and it gets tedious. His prejudice surfaces most blatantly on
> p29, 'The hunch that God might not have done precisely as Bishop Ussher had
> suggested,., was beginning to be tested by real thinkers, by rationalists,
> by radically inclined scientists who were bold enough to challenge both the
> dogma and the law, the clerics and the courts.'' .............................
Michael -
In addition to things you point out, note the implication here that Ussher
wasn't a "real thinker.'
Of course this is nonsense, as pointed out by - among others - Gould in his
essay "Fall in the House of Ussher".
Shalom,
George
George L. Murphy
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
"The Science-Theology Interface"
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