[extropy-chat] Re: Religion: Subject Change! How can you TrustAnythingfrom the Bible - Wise Maji or Not?

[Spike]

> Alfio Puglisi
> 
> I read somewhere some years ago that, in a meeting with some 
> scientists, the Pope pretty much acknowledged the Big Bang as the 
> creation, and that studying the Universe using science from that 
> moment on was OK. Sorry, but I don't have specific references.
> 
> Alfio

It was in Hawking's Brief History of Time.  Perhaps the 
RC church has recognized that in embracing Hawking, they 
can partially atone for their reprehensible treatment of
Galileo.

spike