by Carl Howard | Nov 2, 2009 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Philosophy, Science and Skepticism
This post follows the posts on Galileo’s trial background and what happened at the re-enactment. Time to give my verdict. The most common “populist” argument is that the Galileo verdict was a travesty that represented a clear case of religion repressing science...
by Carl Howard | Oct 28, 2009 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Philosophy, Science and Skepticism
Now that I’ve given some background on the historical trial of Galileo, time to report on the Monday night retrial at UNSW. It had an audience of about 900 and was taped by the ABC for Compass (a show focussing on religion). You can watch Compass online no matter...
by Carl Howard | Oct 26, 2009 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Philosophy, Science and Skepticism
Tonight, the University of NSW is hosting a re-trial of Galileo, organised by my honours supervisor Peter Slezak. I was lucky enough to to retry Galileo in my undergrad degree (when Slezak taught a couse on it) as a prosecutor*, so it’s great to see that this has been...
