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Aug 13 13 6:46 AM
Had2 wrote: Mass Noun wrote-He was, in fact, forced to recant and died under house arrest. I do not expect you to take as fact the overwhelming evidence for this event over Catholic Propaganda. Well there you go assuming again..http://www.catholic.com/tracts/the-galileo-controversy
Just 350 years before, Pope Urban VIII had declared that Galileo had made himself guilty of an "opinion very false and very erroneous and which had given scandal to the whole Christian world.
The point, however, is that the majority of theologians of that epoch did not even know of the existence of a new science, did not know its methods, nor did they feel obliged to respect the freedom of scientific research. Galileo and others of his time (Kepler, Castelli, Campanella, etc.) were ahead of their time in proposing freedom of scientific research. (Galileo wrote of it in the Letter to Castelli and in the Letter to Christina). It took a long time, with the development of modern science, before this became an accepted principle. It would have carried no weight, therefore, with the theologians of Galileo's day, either during the events of 1616 or those of 1632-1633. It is, furthermore, claimed in the Papal address that the error of the theologians was due to their failure to "recognize the distinction between Sacred Scripture and its interpretation." This cannot be correct. Since the time of Augustine, this distinction was well-established and it was taught in all schools of exegesis at the time of Galileo. In fact, in 1616 the qualifiers/consultors of the Holy Office knew this distinction and made use of it in formulating their philosophical-theological opinion on Copernicanism.
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