DEATH / OBITUARIES :Family and friends are mourning the death of Rev. George Coyne, ex-director of the Vatican Observatory and defender of Galileo & Darwin against doctrinaire Catholics who recently passed away.
We learned of the deceased through the following tribute posted on social media.
Rev. George Coyne, ex-director of the Vatican Observatory and defender of Galileo & Darwin against doctrinaire Catholics, has died.
It took the Vatican a mere 359 years to admit Galileo may have had point when he insisted Earth revolves around the sun.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/14/science/the-rev-george-c-coyne-dead.html?auth=login-email&login=email …