Watso said: just as well, that people questioned what the christian church used to preach - otherwise we would still be thinking that the world was flat, and that europe was the centre of the universe.
My response : Galileo Galilei, a professor of mathematics at the University of Padua, turned his first spyglass towards the night sky and gazed in wonder at the never-before-seen stars that leapt out of the darkness. The moon, considered by philosophers to be a perfect sphere -- in keeping with its place in the “immutable heavens” -- revealed her rugged surface, and Jupiter was found to have four moons of its own.
“I render infinite thanks to God for being so kind as to make me alone the first observer of marvels kept hidden in obscurity for all previous centuries,” Galileo declared, testifying to his faith and -- despite its new divisions -- the common faith of Christendom. http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/the_faith_of_galileo/
