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Re: OT: Science Timelines
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Fred White <[log in to unmask]>
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Fred White <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:07:05 -0700
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On Tuesday, January 13, 2004, at 01:06  PM, Roy Brown wrote:

> Fred White <[log in to unmask]> writes
>
>> You're probably right. Nevertheless, does either explanation support
>> burning at the stake for possessing a belief which was different than
>> the persecutors'? It shouldn't even be a felony.
>
> Do I detect the goalposts being surreptitiously moved?
>
> At first, this was about the Sun going round the Earth or not, now it's
> about belief.....

It was never about the Sun going around the Earth. It was about the
BELIEF that the Earth goes around the Sun.

No goal posts were moved (at least, not by me).

FW

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