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Mhm.\u00a0 Of course, moderns don\u2019t believe in thoughtcrime, which is why nobody would ever<\/em> suggest jailing <\/a>people who don\u2019t buy consensus science today<\/a>, as happened with Galileo, Martyr in the War on Science.<\/p>\n

And when it comes to racking up a body count for thoughtcrime, medievals are pikers compared to the Himalaya range of corpses racked up by atheists.<\/a><\/p>\n

To be super clear, I don\u2019t defend the burning of Bruno.\u00a0 I oppose the death penalty.\u00a0 But science programs are not supposed to be about medieval standards of jurisprudence.\u00a0 They are supposed to be about science.\u00a0 Bruno was not a casualty in the Church\u2019s War on Science because there never was a War on Science.\u00a0 The \u201cWar on Science\u201d is a founding creation myth of 18th and 19th century atheistic materialism magicked up in order to provide the rationale for making materialism an All Explaining Theory of Everything.\u00a0 The stupid pet trick consists of claiming that if you reject materialism (\u201cThe cosmos is all there is, or ever was, or ever will be\u201d) you are therefore \u201canti-science\u201d.\u00a0 This is rubbish.\u00a0 The Catholic faith not only supports the natural sciences, it gave birth to them, as honest atheists like Tim O\u2019Neill point out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"