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...There have been many times when religion has fallen behind science and when efforts have been made to reassert religion in an authoritative position. The most famous of those clashes was, of course, between the Roman Catholic Church and Galileo over his heretical belief that the sun was the center of the universe. Galileo was sentenced to house arrest for the rest of his life, and science was forced to submit to religion. Intelligent design is a fleeting but dangerous effort to maintain a position that, in the face of science, becomes less and less credible with the passage...
...found in both. Susan Zimmer Bonita, California, U.S. There have been many times when religion has fallen behind science and when efforts have been made to reassert it in an authoritative position. The most famous of those clashes was, of course, between the Roman Catholic Church and Galileo over his heretical belief that the sun was the center of the universe. Galileo was sentenced to house arrest for the rest of his life, and science was forced to submit to religion. Intelligent design is a fleeting but dangerous effort to maintain a position that, in the face of science, becomes...
...barriers, amazing how close you feel to everything,” said Elizabeth E. Yale, who is a graduate student in history of science. The technological progression of ideas moves from the Aristotelian cosmology of the 17th century to “new ideas” by Copernicus and Galileo a few years later and ends with 2002’s cyclotron. “I love seeing what was considered to be cutting edge at the [different] times,” said Kathy Putnam, whose husband helped fund the project. Briahna J. Gray ’07 said...
...China through unmanned missions are causing as much nervousness in Japan and the U.S. as the hero-making, nationalism-stirring manned flights. Both the U.S. and Japan cried foul when the European Space agency announced in 2003 that it was taking on China as a partner in its Galileo project, a new satellite navigation system that will compete with America's GPS network. "For a relatively small amount of money, so say the U.S. and Japan, the E.U. has given China possible access to European high technology in space with potential military applications," says Axel Berkofsky, senior policy analyst...
...ignorance is exactly why evolution must continue to be taught in schools. The people who oppose evolution so avidly are unaware of what it hypothesizes. I am a practicing Catholic but recognize that the church has made mistakes in the past when it comes to science. Copernicus and Galileo were both condemned for their assumptions of a heliocentric solar system. Does their theory mean that there is no God because Earth revolves around the sun? Does Darwin's theory mean that evolution was not part of God's plan? Please, keep faith where it belongs, and let science be science...