re: #313 wheat-dogg
That how science works. Creationists are really not comfortable with the ad hoc nature of science, because they want all their answers is nice, neat little packages. FTM, conservatives are not comfortable with the ad hoc nature of society and politics. They want everything to remain static, relative to some mythical golden age when society and politics were “just right.”
The Church’s problem with Galileo was that his discoveries might upset the political-theocratic order of things.