Response to a posting claiming that astronomy proves the existence of "God:"
as an aside to the main discussion here, it is sadly humorous that when Galileo advanced his theories of the Universe that are now routinely accepted as being true, there was less than five people in all of Europe that agreed with him. One of those men was burned alive by the Catholic church for his heretical belief in astronomy. That event inspired Galileo to recant his own discoveries before the Christian Church Inquisition in order to save his own life. As a result Galileo spent that last seventeen years of his life under house arrest, being thoroughly discredited for proposing ideas that we today think so trivial that they are a regular part of most grade school curriculum. I don't think "God" had anything to do with Galileo's discoveries and the discoveries certainly did not point to "God" at the time. The discoveries that we now take for granted almost killed Galileo, because the Christian Church interpreted "God's Message" differently than you today apparently do. Think about it.
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William Schaeffer
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