On 21 Oct 2025 10:57:23 GMT, ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
wrote:

Don <g@crcomp.net> wrote or quoted:

In a world that persistently mischaracterizes Christians as
anti-science, Pope Leo XIV's mathematical background offers
a powerful counternarrative.

Angela Merkel has a PhD in physics. Honestly, where in her politics
did that ever show?

We see the unity of faith and reason in the long, robust
history of Catholic contributions to science and mathematics.

And yeah, that's basically why we ended up killing Giordano Bruno.

An article I read a long time ago in /Skeptical Inquirer/ revealed
that Bruno had been banished by most of Europe by the time the Pope
got him.

Apparently, he was so annoying a smart-ass that nobody could stand
him, and had the misfortune to fall into the hands of a Pope who had
no tolerance for smart-assery at all.

I still have no idea whether by "other worlds" he meant planets like
Mars -- or what we would call other universes (which are hypothetical,
no matter what comic books may think).
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

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On 10/31/2025 12:24 PM, Paul S Person wrote:

On 21 Oct 2025 10:57:23 GMT, ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
wrote:

Don <g@crcomp.net> wrote or quoted:

In a world that persistently mischaracterizes Christians as
anti-science, Pope Leo XIV's mathematical background offers
a powerful counternarrative.

Angela Merkel has a PhD in physics. Honestly, where in her politics
did that ever show?

We see the unity of faith and reason in the long, robust
history of Catholic contributions to science and mathematics.

And yeah, that's basically why we ended up killing Giordano Bruno.

An article I read a long time ago in /Skeptical Inquirer/ revealed
that Bruno had been banished by most of Europe by the time the Pope
got him.

Apparently, he was so annoying a smart-ass that nobody could stand
him, and had the misfortune to fall into the hands of a Pope who had
no tolerance for smart-assery at all.

I still have no idea whether by "other worlds" he meant planets like
Mars -- or what we would call other universes (which are hypothetical,
no matter what comic books may think).

The accounts of Bruno I've read make it clear that he figuratively
bit the hand of every sponsor who fed him.

He didn't deserve to be burnt, but he didn't help his case.

I was quite annoyed by him being treated as a secular saint
in Tyson's reboot of 'Cosmos'.

pt

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