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Old 08-01-2007, 04:15 AM
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Default Re: Richard Feynman Vs. The Vatican

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"The church had a monoploy on much of the educational system in Europe for many years so to address your point many "churchmen" made contributions to scientific acheviements. But science progressed all the more rapidly once the fetters were flung off from the church masters."

Well, I agree that the atomic bomb would not have been produced if the Church kept its fetters in place.

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Are you missing a 'yet,' or are you confident that the church would have been capable of making sure that nobody ever figured out how the sun worked?
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