Word: heliocentricism
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The rector of the 705-year-old university adamantly defended his invitation, which he says he'd do "100 times" over, and Vatican radio warned of "censorship" on the part of the protesting profs. The letter, which was signed by several notable members of the physics faculty, cites a 1990...
His analogy might be too tight: Copernicus postulated—but did not prove—that the earth revolves around the sun. It took more than a half-century after Copernicus’s death before Galileo would muster more convincing evidence for the heliocentric theory.
I applaud Krauthammer's piece. As a student in the South, I encounter blind rejection of evolutionary theory on a daily basis. How often have I heard, "You really believe we evolved from monkeys?" That type of ignorance is exactly why evolution must continue to be taught in schools. The...
Secular scholarship places Christ's real birth at about 3 or 4 B.C. The Christian church has never been very quick to acknowledge poor scholarship--it took the church nearly four centuries to get the heliocentric model of the universe right. Nonetheless, four years ago the church could have made...
Universities have never, however, had a monopoly on the truth. Ideas which once were widely recognized and accepted, such as the view a century ago that women were biologically and psychologically inferior to men, have been discredited. Other ideas, now generally accepted, such as the heliocentric notion of the earth...