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From: minsky@media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky)
Subject: Re: Heliocentricism (Re: THE PURPOSE OF LIFE Defined & Gaia)
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<jerrybro@uclink2.berkeley.edu> write
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>jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton) wrote:

This is a follow on to Jeff's surely correct remark that the
theological objections to Galileo may not have been aimed at his
logic.

I can't find the precise quote handy, but it reminds me of a quaint
argument in the essay Galileo wrote defending against the heresy charge.

It was to the effect that even if it appeared to be contradicting some
statements in the bible, he was not contradicting god's intention,
because god was trying to tell them what was good and bad, and was not
attempting in that particular book, to teach them physics!

