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To: Campion
The author has backed up his assertions. Can you?

Or is good enough just to say, "incorrect" if you are Roman Catholic? It seems the proof you might require for this author you do not require for your Church's regarding its doctrine.

My point, however, was to emphasize the last sentence, not to bash Roman Catholicism. If I cannot do one without the other, then "oh-well".

Jean

53 posted on 12/04/2003 2:32:25 PM PST by Jean Chauvin (Sola Scriptura---Sola Fida---Sola Gracia---Sola Christus---Soli Deo Gloria)
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To: Alamo-Girl
Pinging you to an article about the effect of Christianity on the development of science. The article and discussion following are pretty engaging! Thought it might catch your special interest.
54 posted on 12/04/2003 2:37:18 PM PST by TEXOKIE (Hold fast what thou hast received!)
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To: Jean Chauvin
The author has backed up his assertions.

Where, and to whom? Not in what you posted, certainly, where his claim that Ptolemaic geocentrism was "Roman dogma" rests on the claim that it was part of the worldviews of Dante and Aquinas. It may come as a shock to both you and the author, but dogma can only be defined by Popes and Ecumenical Councils, which neither Dante nor Aquinas were.

If geocentrism had been dogma, Galileo would have been condemned as a heretic, as would Copernicus. Galileo's writings were found to have heretical elements, for example his claim that Scripture might be wrong; Copernicus was never tried at all.

Nor did the author back up his tendentious assertion that Catholic dogma is ever "deleted", a claim that has never been substantiated to even the slightest degree except with regard to usury. (And it's most debatable whether it's been done there.)

55 posted on 12/04/2003 2:39:27 PM PST by Campion
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