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To: ndt
How about Gregor Mendel?
Known for Discovering modern genetics Gregor Johann Mendel ... was a Moravian[2] Augustinian priest and scientist often called the "father of modern genetics" for his study of the inheritance of traits in pea plants.

27 posted on 05/21/2007 11:03:13 AM PDT by syriacus (Shock a lib today. Hand them a copy of the censorship rules imposed by Truman's govt in Jan., 1951.)
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To: syriacus
Anti-Church folks love to cite Galileo, as if he were always right...
Galileo dismissed as a "useless fiction" the idea, held by his contemporary Johannes Kepler, that the moon caused the tides.[12]

Galileo also refused to accept Kepler's elliptical orbits of the planets,[13] considering the circle the "perfect" shape for planetary orbits.

Galileo was not always right.

28 posted on 05/21/2007 11:11:44 AM PDT by syriacus (Shock a lib today. Hand them a copy of the censorship rules imposed by Truman's govt in Jan., 1951.)
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