“Here's a story by Ron Grossman of the Chicago Tribune, about a Loyola University exhibit of books that were once on the Catholic Church's 'Index Librorum Prohibitorum,' or list of banned works. The list was created in 1557 by Pope Paul IV. 'Virtually all the giants of early modern science wound up on the Index, as is represented in the Loyola exhibit,' Grossman writes. 'The show includes several volumes of the works of Copernicus, the Polish astronomer who held that the Earth revolves around the Sun. The church taught that the reverse was true, a theory seemingly backed by the biblical account.' ”
Ed Cognoski responds:Last week at a Vatican conference, Cardinal Renato Martino said global warming was natural and good for us. The Index may be gone, but anti-science attitudes still thrive among the ultra-religious. Old habits die hard, I guess.
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