[dragonwriter]

> Sure, religious folks often don't have a problem with simple empirical observations (I mean, the Catholic church _did_ get around to pardoning Galileo 350 years after they murdered him).

There's a lot of people you can reasonably argue were murdered by the Catholic Church, but Galileo isn't one of them.

[joelhoffman]

GP was probably thinking of Giordano Bruno... Galileo died of old age under house arrest after being convicted of heresy.