ps Galileo's sarcasm was a natural response to the intransigent status quo.
Rereading the narrative of the conversation, I found this quote from Galileo to Kepler.
"My dear Kepler, I wish that we might laugh at the remarkable stupidity of the common herd. What do you have to say about the principal philosophers of this academy who are filled with the stubbornness of an asp and do not want to look at either the planets, the moon or the telescope, even though I have freely and deliberately offered them the opportunity a thousand times? Truly, just as the asp stops its ears, so do these philosophers shut their eyes to the light of truth."
Theology a science? Not so much. There's no opportunity for scientific observation.
I no longer have any doubt that abob Armp is an imposter.
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