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So, you're saying book-burning is ok, as long as someone hides a few copies?

So, you're saying book-burning is ok, as long as someone hides a few copies?

The only reason not all books were burned, is because the Church couldn't find them all.

The only reason not all books were burned, is because the Church couldn't find them all.

Do you really think the Pope ordered: the inquisition shall now burn 80% of the books?

Do you really think the Pope ordered: the inquisition shall now burn 80% of the books? [[User:Middle Man|Middle Man]]

[[User:Middle Man|Middle Man]]

:Are you talking to me? The 80% number is mine but it was sort of a joke. What I believe is that none of us really knows the facts—and nobody knows exactly what it means when Encarta says "The Dialogue was ordered to be burned." Probably none of us is interested in researching what is or isn't known about the actual book-burning. So we are searching for language that everyone is happy with. RSchlafly, I think, is seeking to fine-tune the language to keep it out of the Galileo-good-Church-wicked narrative groove. Why not? What difference does it make? In either case, it's clear that the Church officials at the time were trying to suppress the book. "Burning books" is incendiary language, and to me at least evokes images of Hitler, etc. so if RSchlafly wants to be careful about the language, let him. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 13:33, 5 May 2007 (EDT)

==Galileo's experiments dropping objects?==

==Galileo's experiments dropping objects?==