No "new Marx" for the CSIRO, please! The bloke hardly worked a day in his life, neglected his kids and was supported most of his life by others. Since Karl Marx claimed that “The individual human being has no value unless he is a member of the revolutionary masses”, a “new Marx” could hardly be portrayed as a person embodying heterodoxy, being an asset for the CSIRO.
As far as the subject of Galileo is concerned (raised in a newspaper letter by the same Marx devotee), it was the insistence by St Thomas Aquinas and other Catholic thinkers on the rationality of God and His creation that paved the way for someone like Galileo.
It is interesting to observe how modern physics is catching up with Catholic thinking: as early as 1215, the Fourth Lateran Council taught that the universe had a beginning in time. It was an idea that would have scandalised both an ancient Greek and a 19th century positivist; these days, it’s a common ingredient in modern cosmology.
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