PhilGoetz comments on Anti-rationality quotes - Less Wrong

7 Post author: PhilGoetz 17 April 2009 05:55PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 17 April 2009 06:02:32PM 7 points [-]

I'd never actually read the papal condemnation of Galileo. Wow. From a Bayesian or even a Popperian standpoint, that's as absolutely clear-cut a falsification of Catholicism as you can possibly get.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 17 April 2009 06:57:50PM 5 points [-]

It's especially interesting that he was condemned (in the edict) not for teaching Copernicanism, but for believing it.