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Mike Melendez
September 15th, 2011 | 12:11 pm

Re the Associated Press report of a poll, the 53% is of a 1,000 people telephoned nationwide. I suspect it is not much of a representative sample but does provide a headline for the news media.

De Las Casas
September 15th, 2011 | 7:20 pm

The Galileo myth as related here is popular, persistent, and untrue(or to call it what it is “slanderous”).

The “Inquisition” did not deny the earth moved. Many of the panel believed it did move as Catholic clergyman Copernicus had effectively theorized decades earlier.

The debate was over the use of “fact” for what was then only a theory. And some of Galileo’s
exaggerated “facts” in the matter (such as the cause of tides) have proven to be incorrect theories.

The conviction was correct and it was for perjury.