In previous posts, I’ve noted how the central points of conflict between Galileo and his opponents were between different ideologies and personalities, and not religious in nature. Today, I’m going to talk about the actual period of trials Galileo underwent. The First Examination of Galileo Following the sermon by Caccini condemning Galileo, and after Caccini’s…
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Science and Religion Friday: The Galileo Affair, Part 2
Last week, I began looking at the Galileo affair by suggesting that the conflict had to do primarily with competing secular idealogies, both of which had their share of flaws, and was not fundamentally about religion. This week, I’ll continue that line of thought, but also introduce the idea that the conflict was more the…
Science and Religion Friday: The Galileo Affair, Part 1
As I mentioned last week, I’m first going to examine the understanding of the conflict thesis between science and religion and demonstrate why that particular recollection of history is a bit hazy. Nowhere is this more clearly seen than in the Galileo Affair. According to advocates of the conflict model, the official Church (here being…
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