Among Western astronomers, the first heliocentric theorist was Nicholas Copernicus: a Catholic priest. The founder of modern genetics, Gregor Mendel, was a Catholic priest. The formulator of the Big-Bang theory in cosmology, so widely accepted today, was Georges Lemaître: another Catholic priest. Yet nowadays the Catholic hierarchy has a deserved reputation for scientific cluelessness. Farrell amply demonstrates why there is no reason why such ignorance should persist, and every reason why it should be dispelled.
Demanding Murder; Needing Heroes
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I do not know what it is like to be bedridden for years. I hope I never
will. I also wish I never knew what it meant to live t...
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