From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On 21 Oct 2025 10:57:23 GMT, ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)   
   wrote:   
      
   >Don  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.'"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)