Turing finally receives an apology

[Principessa]

Good point, hout. And one that is very important. However, I was just thinking that there are very few places where you would find the quality of discussion across the diversity of opinions that you see in the last 10 posts.

What is it about this site that promotes such amazing conversation.

Anyway, Turing deserves far more recognition than he every got. In a way, he invented computer science and that we are talking to each other on high speed computers the size of a book is partly due to his genius.

I also think it is important to remember nasty periods in our civilization, even if we can understand the zeitgeist that led to such things. It reminds us in general what awful things we are capable of.

I agree!

 

[JustAsking]

Yes, they have. About 300 odd years after the fact, but yes, they did formally apologize.

But in the meantime, the church started using the Copernican/Kepler system as soon as it was obvious it did a better job predicting when Easter should take place. The RCC was giving symposiums on it and had unbanned Galileo's books only 50 years or so after his trial.

It takes a long time for the RCC to apologize for something.