this is a popular Catholic-bashing agrument per "the Enlightenment," what ever is actually in a name, and could not be further from truth. read the work of Nicolas de Cusa, _De Docta Ignorantia_. not all Jews are banker, not all bankers are Jewish; if McCain and Obama do not cut the albatrosses of George Soros and Dick Cheeny, their foreign & energy & space policies, they will both go down

we are Roger Bacon men, actually. found a reprint in a local paper of an article on the Galileo "controversy" from teh Wall St.J., which was very evenhanded, instead of the usual dyss of Catholicism. Society was already destabilizing with the Reformation, which put many freethinkers like Galileo out of range of the Inquisition.... Francis Bacon, the greatest futurist of all time, predated

so, to ask an ignorant question of personal interest, how much of this could be used toward a new or old proof of quadratic reciprocity? That Ac and -Dc must be quadratic residues, mod D and A, respectively, is a trivial result: Let Ax^2 - Dy^2 = c.                   [1] Take this mod A:    -Dy^2 = c      mod A    (Dy)^2 = -Dc   mod A Therefore, -Dc is a quadratic

no-one seriously questioned Copernicus, who did not try to get his friend, Pope Urban, to put his stuff into the writ. Galileo would not even reply to a respectful query from Kepler -- talk about your sleepwalkers! Newton merely algebraized Kepler's three orbital constraints, and stole the solution from Hooke, to boot -- on the shoulders of a giant, who was physically a dwarf; hence, the joke