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From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag)
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Subject: Re: Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
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Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 10:40:27 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 17 10:40:27 1985
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Arndt apologizes for the persecution of Galileo:
>   These men, in the Church, did nothing more
> or less than members of scientific bodies have done many times in the
> course of history and will likely do into the future.  Argue and make

    When else in the history of science have one of the proponents of rival
scientific theories tried to use the legal system to 'prove' (or at least
or at least prevent the other theory from being heard) their own theories?
Nowhere!  Disagreeing scientists argue back and forth in journals and letters,
propose experiments to determine which (if either) theory is correct, etc.
    Wait a minute!  I just remembered something.  the 'Nowhere!' above is
wrong.  Creationists have often tried to use the legal system in this way.
You'd have thought they'd have learned their lesson from their mistake with
Galileo.
-- 
Jeff Sonntag
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    "Know thou, O rash and foolish mortal, that this is none other than the
     infamous subterranean abode of Zazamanc the Archmage.  Abandon hope,
     all ye who linger here."