I was banned from many forums. Beside game and programming related also physics, math, biology, astronomy, photography and such. People just don't like when they are faced with the fact they were doing things the wrong way all along. I also exchanged many e-mails with hundreds of professors at all the major universities all around the world. They too didn't like to hear their text-books are wrong. Vanity is the major obstacle for humanity evolution and progress. Eppur si muove!
The problem is not about believing one or the other, the problem is in refusing to even look at the evidence. You know when Galileo said Earth revolves around Sun and not the other way around, everyone simply "knew" he must be wrong and they refused to even look through his telescope.
Dear... Dear God. Lazycat is so arrogant. He's comparing himself to Galileo, for crying out loud.
Actually, Galileo is probably a good comparison. Although not in favor of either. The matter with Galileo was not Science vs. Religion. Heliocentrism had been proposed by a Polish monk Copernicus in
De Revolutionibus Orbium Caelestium way before the Galileo affair and the theory was gaining popularity. Including among the Pope. Or the famously reactionist Jesuits. So he basically just added a small contribution to something already made before.
Galileo was convinced that since God made nature & God made Bible therefore nature and scripture cannot contradict each another. So he wanted to remake Bible so that it would fit in with empirical evidence, and it was the Pope that wanted to separate religion from science. Oh yeah, and the Pope was Galileo's friend. As in, personal. But, Galileo, in advocating heliocentrism, created a dialogue. There was a character arguing against the theory, named, translated from Italian, 'idiot', who was blatantly based on the Pope. So he basically insulted his friend, who was by then willing to agree with what he was doing.
THEN, he was prohibited from advocating it, so he asked one friend of his, a cardinal, to be allowed to conjecture it. Then he was prohibited from that, too. So then he got the permission to discuss the pros and cons of the theory, which he used to advocate it. So, basically, he was abusing the system to keep coming back again and talk about the same thing all over again, despite everyone making it clear to him that they don't want to hear him anymore.
Oh, and he also insulted other astronomers who were doing the same work.
Ladies and gentlemen, Lazycat is Galileo reincarnated.
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