Re: More fusillades in the ID wars

>>> <Dawsonzhu@aol.com> 2/1/2005 6:52:40 PM >>>Wayne writes:

Did anyone notice the bitter irony of this? A _Catholic_ who
is now being charged as a heretic by a new brand of ideologues
who use the Galileo image as justification for rejecting the
institution. It took the Catholic church 400 years to forgive
Galileo... Are we seeing the reverse problem happening?

Ted replies:
Yes, I made this very point (except the part about Sternberg being a
Catholic, b/c at the time I understood wrongly that he was Eastern Orthodox)
to Sternberg's vicious critics on pandasthumb.org last fall, the very point
about strong parallels between their response to Sternberg and the church's
response to Galileo. Galileo went through the appropriate editorial
procedues (official censors in his case), his work came out, and then it hit
the fan and they ruined him. Ditto Sternberg.

They didn't appreciate my point on pandasthumb, so I took the pleasure of
reminding them yesterday that I called this shot. If they don't like what
the WSJ wrote, it's their own stinkin' fault. They need only look in the
mirror to see whom to blame.

ted
Received on Wed Feb 2 09:03:31 2005