2006-08-01 14:30:06 · 8 answers · asked by CJ 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
This one makes me smile. It's like being in law school where someone has to argue one side of an issue, while someone else is assigned to argue the other side.
The short answer here is that religion prevailed in Galileo's trial. In his book, "Dialogues", he argued that the earth goes around the sun, not the other way around. The Church said the earth is the center of the universe, so the sun and all the stars go around the earth. At the end of the trial, there was no conflict, since Galileo recanted everything he wrote, saying, in essence, that the Church was right.
It would be more interesting, of course, to argue the other side on this question, saying that the questioner's view is
2006-08-01 14:45:02 · answer #1 · answered by bpiguy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you asking if viewing the trial as conflict between science and religion is accurate?
Galileo said the earth moves around the sun instead of the sun moving around the earth as everyone thought. The church thought that the earth didn't move also. I don't think it says in the bible that the sun revolves around the earth, so it's not really a conflict of science and religion. It's a conflict of science and the popular group think of the time. It shouldn't have been a religious issue.
2006-08-01 21:35:49 · answer #2 · answered by JoeIQ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is it inaccurate? Science and Religion have conflicted for a long time. They always will. Religion is what people practice. Some people quibble about that. If the church found Galileo's theories heretical, there was a conflict of Science and Religion.
2006-08-02 01:14:39 · answer #3 · answered by miyuki & kyojin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not. That's one of the 10 or 12 trials over the last 1,000 years that shows how crazy those bible thumpers really are. The most famous, of course, is the Scopes monkey trial, as it's known. Also, realize that the Catholic church WAS both the law and the court back then.
2006-08-01 21:37:21 · answer #4 · answered by alchemist_n_tx 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because most of the people who conducted scientific experiments at that time did so from religious backing, and if the Catholic church would have listened to Galileo instead of trying to martyr him, they would have been even more powerful.
It wasn't necessarily inevitable, but it sure was a product of ego.
2006-08-01 21:36:13 · answer #5 · answered by auntiegrav 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the bible agrees with his findings.
He believed I think that the earth rotated around the sun.
they believed everything rotated around the earth.
Yet no where did the bible say that. It was one of their preconcieved ideas. Kind of like the trinity. One man can't remember his name said on the church steps he wasn't sure about the churches teaching on that.
They promptly cut off his head then and there.
they didn't use to be real liberal about that kind of stuff.
2006-08-01 21:36:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Inaccurate according to who?
2006-08-01 21:36:35 · answer #7 · answered by Just me 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How is it inaccurate? This isn't a complete thought.
2006-08-01 21:32:38 · answer #8 · answered by Alex 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋