Tag: Roman Catholic Church
Darwin and the Swinging 1860s
The threat which such thinking posed to theistic beliefs was not lost on the Roman Catholic Church when Pope Pius IX convened the First Vatican Council of 1869.
Neil deGrasse Tyson and Cosmos Peddle the Myth that Copernicus Demoted Earth
Tyson insists the Copernican demotion story is redemptive because it saves us from religious ignorance.
The Ideological Nature of Darwinian Evolution
Orthodoxy and heresy are not synonyms for true and false, and sometimes the truth might lie with the heretics.
Galileo Myth Goes Marching On
He lived out his life at his comfortable rural estate, Villa Il Gioiello, on the hillside outskirts of Florence.
Science Historian Michael Keas: Let’s Not Compound the Tragedy of Giordano Bruno
The medieval idea of burning people because of their religious beliefs is horrific, but it only adds to the tragedy to say Bruno’s death illustrates the warfare between faith and science.