The book is called Crises of Conscience . It examined 10 historical figures in moments of crisis , with the intent of illustrating lessons valuable to all .
There is much more to the story of Galileo than is generally known . Much , much more .
The Galileo chapter was written as a refutation of various fundamentalist attempts to inject religion into America’s public school curriculum (and of fundamentalism generally) , and to point out that science and spirituality can co-exist .
I have the bibliography of the chapter if you are interested .
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My apologies to all for the hijack . Is there a pm function on this forum ?
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Click the user name and select message.
No worries man. That was actually interesting. 
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@Troll Thanks for the tip ! I’ll try to remember that the next time my INS starts drifting 
@komemiute Cool !
Why? You ain’t a real Mudspiker if you ain’t derailing a thread now and then! 
…and if it is called a “thread” then why do we use the term, “derail” …shouldn’t we say some thing like you “pulled” or “snagged” the thread? Or if we like the term “derail”, then why don’t we use “track” instead of “thread”? 
What do you all think?
(…do you see what I just did with that…total derailment!)
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Please go on, tell us how many forums you are banned in. 
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It’s faster if we count those I’m NOT banned…
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This is actually official Mudspike 
moderator policy.
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I like the idea of ‘track’. Much more ‘piloty’ imho.
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If so, there should be a badge.
I’m sure I’ve derailed more than the 99th percentile of users on this board, at least in relation to my total post count. 
You’re right!
If you can make an icon for it, please sketch up one of these:
It’s a railroad derailer - it does’t it’s namesake task for safety (ie, cars don’t roll off a siding onto a main line).
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Maybe we should use the term ”Sidestep” instead of ”derail”?
How about SLOP? 
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Someone attended international ops training!
As my dear old dad would have said
" Your a Mutt" 
Sorry for shouting. 