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Entry: Fads, Tradition, and Real Knowledge Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/fads_tradition_and_real_knowledge#24398 Post contents: "Who had the agenda? What was it?" The ideological children of the Enlightenment, whose purposes it served to make a caricature of the Church as an obscurantist and fanatical product of a barbarous time dubbed 'The Dark Ages,' wrote post facto commentaries on the Galileo affair because it served their purposes. They employed vivid imagery about the Inquisition and extravagant rhetorical devices ("monkish power" "fanaticism") to buttress their dubious claims of representing 'progress' and man's salvation in liberty. The Galileo affair was just another event twisted and exploited for agitprop. Voltaire and divers idolaters of saeucular sciences are guilty of this. See: Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Liberals generally. They posit something of a Whiggish meta-narrative, exploiting the emotions of the uninformed, to veil their godless materialism. All the better to con the world and stab her in the back unawares ! "How does geocentrism advance those goals?" That is my point exactly. How does heliocentrism advance those goals ? The question has been completely blown out of proportion. I say, mind those who blew it so. Just how the stars and planets move is truly an irrelevant question that does not affect our daily lives -- after all, one could still navigate using the geocentric model. So what was to gain in creating such partisanship and division over the issue ? Personally, I suspect that there is some ulteriour motive that drives all the senseless fuss. I am disposed to geocentrism as an admittedly contrarian position. I aim to eschew concern for scientific theories on matters of dubious importance pursuant to spiritual growth. Sent at: 2008 07 06