An assertion is not true just because it has been repeated for many decades, until everyone believes it.
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School children for most of the past century have been taught things that are not true. One example is the assertion that religion is opposed to science, that one cannot be scientific and believe in God as the Creator of all things.
The “evidence” usually dragged out to support this false assertion is the case of Galileo and his deduction that the earth revolves around the sun, rather than the reverse.
In Continuing the Argument About Darwinian Evolution, I wrote:
“Copernicus was the major early proponent of heliocentricity. But it was Galileo who got into hot water with the Roman Catholic Church; not, however, because of his heliocentric theories. The bishop who later became Pope was a personal friend who had supported Galileo’s work and condoned the publication of Galileo’s findings. Only after Galileo published a satirical work in which he identified his long-time friend and supporter, now the Pope, as a fool was he called to task. It was one thing to publish scientific papers, quite another to ridicule the Pope and the Church in the middle of the Reformation struggle, when the Church was fighting for its spiritual life.”
Steve Kellmeyer, in “Galileo Redux,” posted on The Intellectual Conservative website, adds considerable detail to the Galileo story, demonstrating that church officials were Galileo’s best and most supportive friends.
His real enemies were rival university professors. Mr. Kellmeyer writes:
“Just as the university professors of Galileo’s time used Scripture as a weapon to attack the scientist, so today’s scientists use Scripture to attack the philosopher/theologian.”
If that sounds familiar, it’s because today’s Darwinian atheists, in the same way, attack anyone who points out that their hypothesis is not supported with scientific data, but rests upon nothing more than assumptions necessitated by their preconceptions.
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