{"id":1257,"date":"2023-12-04T15:16:51","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T21:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/?p=1257"},"modified":"2023-12-04T15:16:51","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T21:16:51","slug":"british-humanist-association-condemns-galileo-for-failure-to-adhere-to-the-scientific-consensus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/?p=1257","title":{"rendered":"British Humanist Association Condemns Galileo for Failure to Adhere to the Scientific Consensus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Satura Apologia Today<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Beyond the Satire Note: Isn\u2019t it interesting how many atheists today like to argue from \u201cscientific consensus?\u201d As G.K. Chesterton once said, \u201cfallacies do not cease to be fallacies when they become fashions.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; London England \u2013 In a surprise move, the British Humanist Association condemned seventeenth century scientist Galileo Galilei for not following the science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cThere is nothing more important than the consensus of experts when it comes to doing science.\u201d President Adam Rutherford explained. \u201cGalileo refused to follow the science that the experts of the time taught. We here at the British Humanist\u2019s Association hereby disassociate ourselves from Mr. Galilei.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cAny theory that goes against the scientific mainstream is pseudoscience.\u201d A spokesman for the British Humanist Association said in a statement. \u201cMr. Galilei\u2019s Heliocentric models were radical fringe ideas that were not taken seriously by the vast majority of scientists of his day.\u201d The statement went on to say. \u201cPseudoscientific ideas are harmful and can have dangerous consequences such as heliocentrism taught in schools.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In related news, the British Humanist Society also affirmed a young earth over the weekend, citing almost six thousand years of expert consensus. President Rutherford did not reply immediately to our request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satura Apologia Today Beyond the Satire Note: Isn\u2019t it interesting how many atheists today like to argue from \u201cscientific consensus?\u201d As G.K. Chesterton once said, \u201cfallacies do not cease to be fallacies when they become fashions.\u201d &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; London England \u2013 In a surprise move, the British Humanist Association condemned seventeenth century scientist Galileo Galilei for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-satura-apologia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1259,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions\/1259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}