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Originally Posted by Neapolitan
Take for instance Nicolaus Copernicus who was a third order Dominican. He had faith in the bible and revolutionized the world with a theory that all but Flat Earthers and Fundamentalist believe in.
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Thank the heavens for Copernicus. Also thank the heavens that he didn't suffer the same fate as Galileo at the hands of the Catholic Church.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galile...n_books_banned
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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
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