SCIENCE AND RELIGION

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SCIENCE AND RELIGION
GALILEO BEFORE THE PAPAL INQUISITION
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SCIENCE AND RELIGION
THE NEW WORLDVIEW

• New scientific views challenged old religious
  ones

• Entire perception of universe changed

• Gap between religion science was now a chasm

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SCIENCE AND RELIGION
CHALLENGES TO CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE

• Copernicus the heliocentric view

• At first, little threat posed to Catholicism

• But Copernicus views directly contradicted Bible

• Church prohibits his work in 1616

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SCIENCE AND RELIGION
SCIENCE V. RELIGION

• Galileo forces the issue

• Given some leeway by Pope Urban VIII

• Writes Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World
  Systems

• Condemned by Church in 1633

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SCIENCE AND RELIGION
NEW IDEAS

• DEISM

• Newtons ideas had philosophical implications

• Inertia

• Universe giant clock, machine with
  understandable parts

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SCIENCE AND RELIGION
SCIENCE V. RELIGION

• New scientific view caused great anguish for some

• BLAISE PASCAL (1623-1662)

• science made man insignificant

• tried to reconcile science faith

• rejected Deism

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SCIENCE V. RELIGION

• Others embraced new potential of mankind

• Saw great possibilities

• Lost old feeling of dependency on God

• World was understandable manageable

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NEW IDEAS

• Revolutionary Thought

• BARUCH SPINOZA (1632-1677)

• PANTHEISM God part of everything, expressed
  in nature

• Bible allegorical not literal