Comments on: The Pope is a Dope, says Rome U https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/01/18/the-pope-is-a-dope-says-rome-u/ Sat, 19 Jan 2008 10:51:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Bayesian Bouffant, FCD https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/01/18/the-pope-is-a-dope-says-rome-u/#comment-550741 Sat, 19 Jan 2008 10:51:54 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/01/18/the-pope-is-a-dope-says-rome-u/#comment-550741 I think the university should make amends by inviting Pope Indulgence back to speak at another time. They should invite other, equally scientifically prestigious scientific speakers as well, like Ken Ham and Sylvia Browne. And they should put them on a stage with a big banner in the background that reads, E pur si Muove!

]]> By: Stephanie Z https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/01/18/the-pope-is-a-dope-says-rome-u/#comment-550740 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:44:29 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/01/18/the-pope-is-a-dope-says-rome-u/#comment-550740 Uh, Scott, I don’t think the pope needs to worry about not having a platform. “Bully pulpit” doesn’t get much more literal than this.

]]> By: Scott Belyea https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/01/18/the-pope-is-a-dope-says-rome-u/#comment-550739 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:00:02 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/01/18/the-pope-is-a-dope-says-rome-u/#comment-550739

This is good news!

It most certainly is not. It’s just suppression of free speech.

]]> By: Tony P https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/01/18/the-pope-is-a-dope-says-rome-u/#comment-550738 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:42:38 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/01/18/the-pope-is-a-dope-says-rome-u/#comment-550738 This is good news! I love seeing academia give it to religious whack jobs and Benny the Rat is deserving of such derision and scorn.

I tend to think of organized religion as being one of the greatest sources of evil on the planet. Right now it’s the Islamists that win the title of most evil, but the Christians are battling to reclaim the title. Curiously the Jews are relatively quiet on this.

Best bumper sticker I’ve seen in a long time was “Religions are just cults with more members.”

]]> By: Tegumai Bopsulai, FCD https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/01/18/the-pope-is-a-dope-says-rome-u/#comment-550737 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:19:25 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/01/18/the-pope-is-a-dope-says-rome-u/#comment-550737 Uh, no. Check it out for yourself. What he meant is that
1) Making a fallacious appeal to consequences is rational.
2) He actually seems to think that the Theory of Relativity rescues geocentricity.

]]> By: Dave Briggs https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/01/18/the-pope-is-a-dope-says-rome-u/#comment-550736 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:14:07 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/01/18/the-pope-is-a-dope-says-rome-u/#comment-550736 The signatories of the letter said Benedict’s presence would be “incongruous”. They cited a speech he made at La Sapienza in 1990, while he was still a cardinal, in which he quoted the judgment of an Austrian philosopher of science who wrote that the church’s trial of Galileo was “reasonable and fair”.

Incongruous seems like an appropriate word here. Maybe when the Pope talked about it being fair he meant it stuck to the protocol, not necessarily that it was the right thing to do?
Dave Briggs :~)

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