tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905686568472747305.post6891404817117580240..comments2024-03-22T06:22:08.010+00:00Comments on Stephen Law: Letter to DanielianStephen Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02167317543994731177noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905686568472747305.post-14758503021008178732007-12-18T17:06:00.000+00:002007-12-18T17:06:00.000+00:00"If Stephen will publish my letter his readers may..."If Stephen will publish my letter his readers may see the point."<BR/><BR/>Link to his letter is provided in the above text.<BR/><BR/>Incidentally, the final lines of my lettere were not used by The Guardian - they wer:<BR/><BR/>"This was a shameful episode in the Catholic Church’s history and it does revisionists like McAreavey no credit to pretend otherwise. Especially when they get their facts wrong."<BR/><BR/>For the whole debate on Galileo, hit the "Galileo" link on the sidebar. Be interested in Gerald's response to my little essay it the Galileo affair.Stephen Lawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02167317543994731177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905686568472747305.post-77467594616486239432007-12-17T23:32:00.000+00:002007-12-17T23:32:00.000+00:00Not being well acquainted with the name Stephen La...Not being well acquainted with the name Stephen Law I was astounded and greatly flattered recently to come across his angry and intemperate rejoinders to my July letter to The Guardian. In common with the other responses published by The Guardian he effectvely confirms the essential point of my letter which was to complain that Professor McFadden, in an article ostensibly about the existence of other "Earths", could not forbear, like many other modern scientists and astronomers, to turn it into a gratuitous attack on the attitude of the Catholic Church to science by citing the case of Galileo. If Stephen will publish my letter his readers may see the point. I particularly made reference to the Jewish writer Arthur Koestler (the Guardian excised the word Jewish) who shows in his scholarly work "The Sleepwalkers" that prominent churchmen (notably Canon Copernicus and Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa) were at the forefront of scientific speculation decades and centuries before Galileo's time, and that Galileo himself was feted in Rome by the Cardinals for his discovery of Jupiter's moons, orbiting Jupiter, not the Earth.<BR/>Flattery notwithstanding, I'm a little hurt by his accusations of "pretending" and being a "revisionist" and making "denials", to say nothing of his difficulties with the spelling of my name (what would he do to MacGiollaRiabhaigh?)<BR/> As to his own attitudes, it's instructive to read that he can "have a rethink".<BR/>Finally he assumes without proof that I am a Catholic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905686568472747305.post-23433532147900624082007-09-10T11:14:00.000+00:002007-09-10T11:14:00.000+00:00Thanks for that. But who is Elaine Supakis?Thanks for that. But who is Elaine Supakis?Stephen Lawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02167317543994731177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905686568472747305.post-50386876303321854322007-09-09T22:41:00.000+00:002007-09-09T22:41:00.000+00:00The RC church would still like to control the thou...The RC church would still like to control the thoughts of their believers, but it is getting more difficult. Elaine Supakis, has many observations on the present pope.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com