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Shades Of Galileo, Pope Urban VIII And The Papal Inquisition. The Texas Education Agency Fires The Texas Director of Science Curriculum, Chris Comer.

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Glendale, Kentucky
December 1, 2007
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This article reminds me of  what Galileo went through, in the 1600's.

USA Today
AUSTIN (AP) — The state's director of science curriculum said she resigned this month under pressure from officials who felt she gave the appearance of criticizing the instruction of intelligent design.
The Texas Education Agency put Chris Comer on 30 days paid administrative leave in late October, resulting in what she described as a forced resignation.
The move came shortly after Comer forwarded an e-mail announcing a presentation being given by the author of Inside Creationism's Trojan Horse. In the book, author Barbara Forrest says creationist politics are behind the movement to get intelligent design theory taught in public schools. Comer sent the e-mail to several individuals and a few online communities.
Comer, who held her position for nine years, said she believes evolution politics were behind her ousting.
"None of the other reasons they gave are, in and of themselves, firing offenses," she said.
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Galileo
1616  A committee of advisors to the Inquisition declares that holding the view that the Sun is the center of the universe or the earth moves is absurd and formally heretical.
1616 Cardinal Bellarmine warns Galileo not to hold, teach, or defend Copernican theory.  According to an unsigned transcript found in the Inquisition file in 1633, Galileo is also enjoined from discussing his theory, either orally or in writing.
1624 Galileo goes to Rome.  He has six audiences with the Pope and meets with influential cardinals.  Pope Urban VIII tells Galileo that he can discuss Copernican theory--so long as he treats it as an hypothesis.
1632 Based on the special commission's report, the Pope refers Galileo's case to the Roman Inquisition.
1632 Galileo receives a summons to appear before the Inquisition.  Galileo asks that his trial be moved to Florence.
1633 Galileo is interrogated before the Inquisition.  For over two weeks he is imprisoned in an apartment in the Inquisition building.  Galileo agrees to plead guilty to a lesser charge in exchange for a more lenient sentence.  He declares that the Copernican case was made too strongly in his book Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, and offers to refute it in another book.
1633 Galileo is sentenced to prison for an indefinite term.  Seven of ten cardinals presiding at his trial sign the sentencing order.  Galileo signs a formal recantation. Galileo is allowed to serve his term under house-arrest in the home of the archbishop of Siena.
1820 Papal Inquisition abolished.
1992 Catholic Church formally admits that Galileo's views on the solar system are correct.

Judgment Day, Intelligent Design On Trial.

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Glendale, Kentucky
November 15, 2007
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Last night I had the opportunity to watch "Judgment Day Intelligent Design On Trial" on PBS. It was well worth watching and I would recommend it to anyone seeking the truth. The video can be seen online here.

In 2004 the quiet town of Dover, Pennsylvania, was catapulted into the spotlight of national attention and scrutiny. That year, Dover Area School District board member Bill Buckingham requested that a textbook teaching intelligent design—the idea that life is too complex to have evolved naturally and therefore must have been designed by an intelligent agent—be added to the science program.
The school board decided against adopting the book, but Buckingham and his curriculum committee soon after drafted a policy mandating that before every biology unit that involved evolution, students be read a statement telling them that "gaps [and] problems" with Darwin's theory exist. This time, the board voted in Buckingham's favor. They announced on November 19 of that year that the town's science teachers would be required to read the statement to students, and that copies of the intelligent-design textbook would be made available in the school library.
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George W. Bush. Creationism Or Intelligent Design I Don’t Think So. He’s Just A bad Example Of Evolution! Google Video.

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Glendale, Kentucky
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June 11, 2007

Evolution Opponent Kenneth Willard Running Unopposed For National School Board

Evolution Opponent Kenneth Willard Running Unopposed For National School Board Association
Hillbilly Report
Glendale, Kentucky
May 19, 2007
When Galileo proved the Nicolaus Copernicus theory that the earth revolved around the sun, the so called Christians of the day convicted Galileo of heresy and sentenced Galileo to prison.
During the Inquisitions so called Christians killed, jailed and tortured those they defined as heretics.
Today, I feel, people like Kenneth Willard who use Christianity to oppose modern day science, are no different than the Galileo Inquisitors and those that follow Kenneth Willard are the modern day Inquisitors and that’s scary. It seems Kenneth Willard and the modern day inquisitors have overlooked what Jesus had to say.
Matt 22:36-40
36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
(KJV)

Intelligent Design???????????