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Science And The Bible

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The clash between science and religion began in the sixth century BCE with the Greek mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras, whose geocentric view of the universe influenced ancient Greeks like Aristotle and Ptolemy. Aristotle's geocentric concept endured for 2,000 years - primarily as a philosophy - and would have an influence in turn on the powerful Church of Rome. It was adopted by the church due to the scientist Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) who had great respect for Aristotle.

Galileo's heliocentric concept challenged Aquinas' geocentric philosophy, and Galileo had the nerve to suggest that his heliocentric concept was in harmony with Scripture, a direct challenge to the Church itself, and so bringing about the Inquisition in 1633. It was Galileo's figurative, and accurate, interpretation of Scripture against Aquinas' and the Catholic Church's literal and inaccurate interpretation. For being right Galileo stood condemned until 1992 when the Catholic Church officially admitted to their error in their judgment of Galileo.

So the static between religion and science was caused by philosophy and religion wrongly opposed to science and the Bible.
 
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DLH said:
For being right Galileo stood condemned until 1992 when the Catholic Church officially admitted to their error in their judgment of Galileo.
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1992. That's amazing. It shows how much our human egos can keep us in error.
 
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Jefferson said:
1992. That's amazing. It shows how much our human egos can keep us in error.
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Excellent! I very much like how you say our human egos. Not just theirs, but ours. We have to constantly give our egos a good thrashing so that our very own thinking can be corrected. Especially with something we think dogmatically about.
 
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Jefferson said:
The worst offenders on our side are pastors.
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One reason I don't like organized religion is that the higher you go the more hypocrisy, for example, there is. The worst kid in town is always the pastor's son. Because he sees first hand the hypocrisy, I suppose. We all have a little bit of that in us but those at the top have to concentrate on feeding the machine, the organization. It becomes about money, or power, or ego.
 
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