At 07:38 AM 4/1/01 +0200, Anonymous wrote:

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Um, he's not *advocating*. He pointed out that such systems were inevitable.

So he is new Galileo then.

Darwin, not Galileo. Darwin said, "offspring inherit traits from parents" and "some traits are more helpful than others", "ergo selection leads to adaptation". Darwin didn't *advocate* evolution, he said, it happens, its inevitable.

Shattering the geocentrism endangered only the theological dogma, and he almost got barbecued. The church in question admitted wrongdoing

350 years after Galileo's death (in 1992).

Maybe after a similar time we will eventually forgive the Catholic bastards. Until then,