Carolyn S. Shoemaker - astronomer and a co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 -- that comet that ran into Jupiter back in 1994.
Too bad she wasn't on Charlie Rose when they discussed about it
Too bad she wasn't on Charlie Rose when they discussed about it
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
