This needs to be broadcast to all your minister friends as well as they
probably unthinkingly adopt a conflict thesis whether from typical liberal
theology or from Henry Morris's version where the goodies and baddies are
reversed.
I do think that one of the reasons why ministers adopt creationism is that
they assume the conflict thesis version of the history of science is the
true one.
Michael Roberts
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ted Davis" <tdavis@messiah.edu>
To: <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 3:59 PM
Subject: Destroying the myth about Copernicus and humanity
> All,
>
> The latest issue of American Journal of Physics (Oct 2001), 1029-35,
> contains a splendid article detailing a point that historians of science
(at
> least some of us) have been tring to get scientists to understand for
years:
> namely, that the old story about Copernicus dethroning humanity by moving
us
> out of the center of the universe, is simply not true. The truth is
closer
> to the reverse.
>
> Broadcast this to your scientific friends, who typically use this garbage
> to browbeat religious believers, a la Carl Sagan.
>
> Ted Davis
>
>
>
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