 | CanadaSucks (50)
05/06/2008 | Classic case of a good-but-not-great thinker. . .his model of the universe held up for a period of time (sun being in the center - 'heliocentric'?) and it gets points for being revolutionary for its time, but Nick gave us the best work of his day that isn't quite as transcendent as other scientists or thinkers.
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 | Automatt (43)
05/06/2008 | Terrified of being tortured as a heretic, Copernicus held off on publishing his life's work until the very year of his death. The book was subsequently banned until 1835 as it conflicted with the Catholic Church's central tenet that the Earth was the center of the Universe. Since we now know this to be false, all of the other teachings, such as the virgin birth, the mystical transubstantiation of matter, resurrection, etc are in no way impugned, no don't be silly.
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 | Moosekarloff (19)
10/21/2003 |  Copernicus was wrong, but at least he was on the right track. Subsequent experimentation and observation bore out his hypothesis that the earth was not the center of the universe, and this had a major impact on world-wide thinking, especially in the West, as an accepted "truth" turned out be a bushel of roadapples. But the Catholic Church, which based a good deal of its fairy tales, magical thinking, dogma and illogical system on the Ptolmaic model, held out for hundreds of years, insisting that their explanation of the cosmos, which was nothing more than mere mortals mouthing the supposed words of God, was the Real Deal. Well, if one of the central tenets of Christianity, the earth-centered universe, turned out to be total nonsense, what does that make the other myths and bedtime stories like Adam and Eve, the Virgin Birth, the Miracles of Jesus, the Resurrection, etc.? All hogwash, chickendoo and bulldinkle, folks. And since all this crap appears in the Bible, the irrefutable Word of God, you have to either (1) Question the validity of the text, or (2) Assume that the Divine is a BS artist. Droolers: Vote "Unhelpful" now...
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 | Boonta23 (0)
03/28/2001 | This Polish astronomer once published a book saying the sun, not the Earth was in the center of the solar system, it was banned until 1835. Before the publishing of the book, people believed Ptolemy was right in saying the Earth was in the center of the solar system.
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