Jeff Taylor from the Space Centre writes to tell VanGoGreen about this up-coming event:

The Space Centre is holding another lecture in its Speaker Series to commemorate the International Year of Astronomy.

The lecture may be of interest to your followers who like astronomy, science, religion, and philosophy.

Here are the details:
His peers heckled him. His church condemned him. But Galileo stood his ground. He argued for the separation of science and salvation. He fought for the right to teach new theories of the universe. He changed the very questions we ask about nature.

Lesley Cormack (Dean and Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Simon Fraser University) tells the story of Galileo and his struggles to convince the church of his views.

Date: Wednesday, November 25

Time: 7pm

Location: H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, Vancouver

Admission: $10.75.

Information: (604) 738-7827 or spacecentre.ca . Door prizes and coffee.