Forget About Darwin . . .
. . . this Pope has doubts about Galileo:
At the end of Retrying Galileo, Finocchiaro surmises that the history of the Galileo affair is not over. Interestingly, in a speech delivered at Parma, Italy, 15 March 1990, then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) stated: "At the time of Galileo the Church remained much more faithful to reason than Galileo himself. The process against Galileo was reasonable and just" (3). Perhaps this portends the next story in the grand saga of the Galileo affair.
HISTORY OF SCIENCE: The Many Trials of Galileo Galilei -- Machamer 309 (5731): 58 -- Science
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